LANSING, ROBERT

(1864); U.S. Secretary of State, 1915-20, and jurist; 6. Water town, N.Y. He graduated from Amherst, in 1886, studied law, and practiced his profe ion in his native town from 1889 to 1907. The government engaged him as counsel to act in the settlement of a number of important international questions, notably the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Arbitration, Paris, 1892-93; Bering Sea Claims Commi ion, 1896-97; Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903; North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, 1909-10; and the American and British Claims Arbitration, 1912-14. In the latter year he became Counsello for the State Department under the Wilson administration, and _ shortly afterwards succeeded William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State, holding that office till 1920. He was dismi ed by President Wilson for alleged usurpation of the latter’s authority by calling Cabinet meetings during Wilson’s iline . The diplomatic correspondence between. the U.S. and the belligerents in the World War before the former country entered the conflict made his name of outstanding note as a signatory to many documents of high import and historical value, and he was a figure of equal prominence as a member of the American Commi ion to Negotiate Peace in Paris at the war’sclose. He published, 1921, The Big Four and Others at the Peace Conference, and The Peace Negotiations, a personal narrative.