Robert E. Olds

Robert E. Olds (1927)

Robert Edwin Olds (* 22. October 1875 in Duluth , Minnesota ; † 25. November 1932 in Paris ) was an American lawyer and politician , considered among others from 1927 to 1928 United States Under Secretary of State Deputy Foreign Minister was.

Life

Olds graduated in law at the Law School of Harvard University , which he completed in 1900's. After his legal admission, he joined the law firm of Frank Billings Kellogg in Saint Paul and worked there until 1917. He was then between 1919 and 1921 Commissioner of the American Red Cross in Europe and then a member of the US delegation to the League of Nations . On October 5, 1925 he became the successor of John Van Antwerp MacMurray of assistive Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State ) and held this position until June 30, 1927 after which William Richards Castle Jr. became his successor.

After that Olds was born on July 1, 1927 succeeding Joseph Grew as Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( United States Under Secretary of State ) and was as such until his replacement by J. Reuben Clark on June 30, 1928 deputies of Frank B. Kellogg, between 1925 and 1929 was Foreign Minister .

In 1929 he became a member of the Reparations Commission established by the Peace Treaty of Versailles and in 1931 was nominated as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague established by the Hague Peace Conferences . In 1932 he was a member of the Council of the International Chamber of Commerce , where he died unexpectedly of complications from an intracerebral hemorrhage .

publication

• Etude sur le régime juridique des ententes industrielles préparée pour le comité économique , co-authors Henri Decugis and Siegfried Tschierrack, League of Nations , Geneva 1930

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert E. Olds in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs