John Bassett Moore
| John Bassett Moore | |
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| 23rd United States Assistant Secretary of State | |
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In office April 27, 1898 – September 6, 1898 |
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| Preceded by | William R. Day |
| Succeeded by | David J. Hill |
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December 3, 1860 Smyrna, Delaware |
| Died | November 12, 1947 (aged 86) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Profession | Politician, Author, Lawyer, Professor |
John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947) was an authority on international law, who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first American judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice (the "World Court").
Moore was born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated from the University of Virginia in 1880, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk at the Department of State, then an Assistant Secretary of State. In 1891 he took the first full professorship of international law at Columbia University; he stayed there until 1924. During his service with the Department of State he acted as secretary to the Conference on Samoan Affairs (1887) and to the Fisheries Conference (1887–88).
While holding the chair of international law and diplomacy at Columbia, Professor Moore was frequently granted leave of absence to accept appointments in the public interest. For part of 1898 he served as Assistant Secretary and Acting Secretary of State, and after the close of the war with Spain was secretary and council to the American Peace Commission at Paris. In 1901, he served as professor of International Law at the Naval War College, where he initiated that college's long series of "International Law Blue Book" publications. Subsequently Moore represented the government as agent before the United States and Dominican Arbitration Tribunal (1904), as delegate to the Fourth International American Conference at Buenos Aires and special plenipotentiary to the Chilean centenary (both 1910), and as delegate to the International Commission of Jurists at Rio de Janeiro (1912). He was on the Hague Tribunal from 1912 to 1938, and was a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1920 to 1928.
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