Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862-1947)

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Republican Party

United States Presidential Election (1912)

Comments at the University Society Annual Meeting, March 21, 1903 (excerpts)

The Friendship of Settlement Work, March 28, 1903

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, January 17, 1913

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 11, 1914

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

Frederick Paul Keppel to Jane Addams, January 27, 1915

James Brown Scott to Jane Addams, March 13, 1915

Herman Jerome Schwartz to Jane Addams, September 27, 1915

Frederick Paul Keppel to Jane Addams, October 21, 1915

Testimony Before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 11, 1916

Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 11, 1916 (fragment)

Peace Plans, November 27, 1916

Frederick Paul Keppel to Jane Addams, December 12, 1916

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, January 12, 1917

Platform of The World's Court League Inc., January 16, 1917

Charles Herbert Levermore to Jane Addams, June 6, 1919

Charles Herbert Levermore to Jane Addams, June 7, 1919

Heinrich Lammasch to George Davis Herron, October 21, 1919

Committee on American and Japanese Relations Invitation List, April 8, 1921

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, May 5, 1921

The Potential Advantages of the Mandate System, May 13, 1921

Annotated list of names to solicit for Barnett Memorial Fellowship, January 12, 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 15, 1925

List of Potential Members of the Barnett Memorial Fellowship Committee, January 15, 1925

Frits Vilhelm Holm to Jane Addams, December 14, 1925

New University Trains Germans for Politics, December 20, 1925

The National Economic League, 1926

Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election Pamphlet, April 1926

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Board of Governors and Chicago Committee list, ca. June 1926

Thomas Jefferson Centennial Election, ca. June 1926

Two Bunker Hills, November 1926

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, November 30, 1926

Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett to Jane Addams, March 15, 1927

The United States and the Permanent Court of International Justice, April 1927

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to William Jennings Bryan, September 7, 1916

John Dewey et al. to Andrew Carnegie et al. January 31, 1917

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Birth Date

1862-04-02

Death Date

1947-12-07

Birthplace

Elizabeth, NJ

Biographical Text

Nicholas Murray Butler was a politician and educator. After graduating from Columbia College, later becoming Columbia University. He co-founded, with Grace Hoadley Dodge, the Horace Mann School. In 1902, Butler became president of Columbia University and stayed in that position until 1945. In the political arena, he was the vice presidential candidate of the William Howard Taft ticket for 1912 election. He attempted to run for president twice after that. In 1931, Butler was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams. He received the award for his efforts in international law, specifically in helping the Briand-Kellogg Pact get signed.

Butler married Susanna Edwards Schuyler in 1887. Together they had one daughter, Sarah Schuyler Butler. After Susanna Schuyler's death in 1903, he remarried in 1907 to Kate La Montagne. Butler died in 1947.

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Picture: The World's Work. March, 1902.

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DeLora, Renee

Sciancalepore, Victoria

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Public domain

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Male

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1903

Bibliography and Links

Bamberger, Alan J. "Houses were Under Fire at Barnard 20 Years Ago". Columbia Daily Spectator. October 12, 1934. p. 1.

Finding Aid for Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia 250, Columbia Univeristy.

Wikipedia

“The Nobel Peace Prize 1931.” NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019, n.d.

Citation

“Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862-1947),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 13, 2024, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1442.