biography
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Moore, John Bassett
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| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1947)
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| biography:
| International jurist, born in Smyrna, Delaware, USA. He combined public service with legal scholarship as a professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University (1891–1924). At the US State Department (1885–91), he dealt with all major American consular business. He was assistant secretary of state during the Spanish-American War and a State Department counsellor (1913–14), and became the first US judge on the World Court (1921–8). Among his extensive writings and compilations is Digest of International Law (8 vols, 1906). |
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