词条 | House, Edward M. |
释义 | House, Edward M. American diplomat in full Edward Mandell House born July 26, 1858, Houston, Texas, U.S. died March 28, 1938, New York, N.Y. ![]() Independently wealthy, House turned from business to politics and between 1892 and 1904 served as an adviser to Texas governors, one of whom gave him the honorary title of colonel. Thereafter he was commonly known as Colonel House. He was active in the presidential campaign of Democrat Woodrow Wilson (Wilson, Woodrow) in 1912, and after Wilson was elected he became the new president's most trusted adviser. He developed excellent relations with congressional leaders and had an important role in winning congressional support for Wilson's legislative program. ![]() House was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and worked closely with Wilson in the drafting of the covenant of the League of Nations. As the negotiations wore on, however, House, who was a realist and an apostle of compromise, began to lose the confidence of Wilson, an idealist who found compromise distasteful. The gap between the two men widened, and, after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919), they never saw each other again. Additional Reading A standard biography is A.D. Howden Smith, Mr. House of Texas (1940). |
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