COLBY, BAINBRIDGE

(1869), an American lawyer, 6. in Sb. uis, Mo. After graduating from Williams College, in 1890, he studied law in Columbia Law School, and began to practice in 1892. He represented Mark Twain in clearing up the affairs of the latter’s publishing busine . In 1912 he was actively identified with the effort to organize the Progre ive Party and was candidate for the U.S. Senate for that party in 1914. During the war against Germany he was Commi ioner of the U.S. Shipping Board, and from March, 1920, until March, 1921, he was Secretary of State in President Wilson’s Cabinet. From 1921 he was a ociated with Woodrow Wilson in the practice of international law.