John Bassett Moore

John Bassett Moore
Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice
In office
January 1922 – April 11, 1928
Succeeded byCharles Evans Hughes
2nd Counselor of the United States Department of State
In office
April 23, 1913 (1913-04-23) – March 4, 1914 (1914-03-04)
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
Preceded byChandler P. Anderson
Succeeded byRobert Lansing
23rd United States Assistant Secretary of State
In office
April 27, 1898 (1898-04-27) – September 6, 1898 (1898-09-06)
PresidentWilliam McKinley
Preceded byWilliam R. Day
Succeeded byDavid Jayne Hill
5th Third Assistant Secretary of State
In office
August 6, 1886 (1886-08-06) – September 30, 1891 (1891-09-30)
PresidentGrover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Preceded byAlvey A. Adee
Succeeded byWilliam Morton Grinnell
Personal details
Born(1860-12-03)December 3, 1860
Smyrna, Delaware
DiedNovember 12, 1947(1947-11-12) (aged 86)
New York, New York
Political partyRepublican
ProfessionPolitician, author, lawyer, professor
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John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947) was an American lawyer and authority on international law.[1][2][3] Moore was a State Department official, a professor at Columbia University, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1922 to 1928, the first American judge to sit on that judicial body.[2]

  1. ^ Robert F. Turnera, War and the Forgotten Executive Power Clause of the Constitution: A Review Essay of John Hart Ely's War and Responsibility Archived March 26, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, 34 Va. J. Int'l L. 903, 916 (1994): "Arguably the greatest American international lawyer of this century, the late John Bassett Moore..."
  2. ^ a b Christine E. White, "Leading Figures in International Law: John Bassett Moore", International Judicial Monitor (Summer 2009).
  3. ^ Borchard, Edwin (1948). "John Bassett Moore". American Journal of International Law. 42 (1): 98–101. doi:10.1017/S0002930000086334. ISSN 0002-9300.