United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations

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Borah, William Edgar (1865-1940)

Cullom, Shelby Moore (1829-1914)

Hitchcock, Gilbert Monell (1859-1934)

Lodge, Henry Cabot (1850-1924)

Stone, William Joel (1848-1918)

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1816

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The United States Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations is responsible for overseeing foreign policy initiatives and implementation. It deliberates on treaties, land sales, including the purchase of Alaska, and other international affairs. It worked closely with the Department of State, and as one of only ten original standing committee, it is powerful and prestigious. The Committee's power to ratify or reject treaties made it critical to peace efforts, as it weighed in on issues like the League of Nations and efforts towards world disarmament. The Committee, under the leadership of Henry Cabot Lodge, led efforts to reject the Treaty of Versailles over President Wilson's efforts. Its isolationism in the 1920s and 930s quashed international efforts, but by 1940 the Committee reversed its stance on neutrality and began funding Great Britain with the Lend-Lease program.

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Picture: Russell Senate Office Building, Horydczak photograph collection (Library of Congress).

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Sciancalepore, Victoria

Hajo, Cathy Moran

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Public domain

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Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Millenium Edition, 1816-2000 (Washington: Government Printing Office: 2000), pp. 6-7.

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“United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations,” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed August 1, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/18287.

United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations

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Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood to Jane Addams, January 14, 1915

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, February 9, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Meyer London, February 15, 1916

Fanny Garrison Villard to Jane Addams, February 15, 1917

Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, January 21, 1921

Memorandum on the World Court Conference in New York, October 27, 1926

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927