BARRETT, JOHN

(1866), American diplomat and publicist, 6. at Grafton, Vt. He studied for a time at Vanderbilt University and graduated from Dart mouth in 1889. After teaching for a year at Oakland, Cal., he became a ociated (1890-94) with several important newspapers on the Pacific coast. In 1894 he was appointed Minister to Siam, and his services in that post earned him ‘the special thanks of the President. During the Spanish-American War, he served asa | special correspondent in the Philippines. He was appointed Minister to Argentina, 1903-04, to Panama, 1904-05, and to. Colombia, 1906. His work in these capacities made persona grat a to South America, and in1907 he was chosen by unanimous vote of 21 American Governments as Director-General of the Pan-American Union, an international organization maintained in Washington to promote amity, commerce and peace, between the countries of the Western Hemisphere. He resigned this position in 1920. He has written extensively on Asiatic and Latin American subjects.