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Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Commissioners and staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris on June 25, 1919 (President Wilson seated at center of front row)
The American Commission to Negotiate Peace , successor to
The Inquiry , participated in the
peace negotiations at the
Treaty of Versailles from January 18 to December 9, 1919.
[1]
Frank Lyon Polk headed the commission in late 1919. The peace conference was superseded by the
Council of Ambassadors (1920–1931), which was organized to deal with various political questions regarding the implementation of provisions of the Treaty, after the end of
World War I .
[2] Members of the commission appointed by
President
Woodrow Wilson included:
[3]
[4]
Commissioners Plenipotentiary
Staff Members
Leonard Porter Ayres
Bernard Baruch , chief of the Economic Section.
George Louis Beer , colonial historian and chief of the Colonial Division.
William S. Benson , chief of the Naval Section.
Isaiah Bowman
William C. Bullitt , chief of Current Intelligence Division.
Robert Emmett Condon
Norman H. Davis
Clive Day , an
American
college professor and writer on economics history at the
University of California .
Ellis Loring Dresel , chief of Current Diplomatic and Political Correspondence Division.
Allen W. Dulles
John F. Dulles
Stanley Dunbar Embick
Donald Paige Frary , an
American
college professor with
Yale University , an expert on International Affairs, and author; served as a secretary to
Edward M. House .
Samuel Gompers , chief of the Labor Section.
Ulysses S. Grant III
Cary T. Grayson , aide to President Wilson.
Joseph C. Grew , secretary general.
Leland B. Harrison , diplomatic secretary.
Charles Homer Haskins
Amos Shartle Hershey
Christian A. Herter , assistant to Ambassador White.
Herbert Hoover , chief of the Food Section.
Stanley K. Hornbeck
Manley Ottmer Hudson
Edward N. Hurley , chief of the Shipping Section.
Mark Jefferson
Douglas Wilson Johnson
Francis Joseph Kernan , chief of the Military Section.
Alexander Comstock Kirk , assistant to Secretary of State Lansing.
Harry Shepard Knapp
Thomas W. Lamont
Alexander Legge
Vance C. McCormick , an
American politician and prominent
businessman from
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania .
Luke McNamee
Sidney Edward Mezes , an
American philosopher and
college professor , former president of the
City College of New York .
David Hunter Miller
Fred K. Nielsen
Frank Herman Schofield
James Brown Scott
Charles Seymour , an
American
college professor at
Yale University .
James T. Shotwell
Charles Pelot Summerall
Leland L. Summers
Frank W. Taussig
Ralph H. Van Deman
William Linn Westermann , then a professor at the
University of Wisconsin , who later taught at
Cornell and
Columbia and became president of the
American Historical Association . At the conference, Westermann advised on policy regarding the Near East.
Allyn Abbott Young
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