American Commission to Negotiate Peace

The American Commission to Negotiate Peace, successor to The Inquiry, participated in the peace negotiations at the Treaty of Versailles from January 18 to December 9, 1919.^[1] Frank Lyon Polk headed the commission in late 1919. The peace conference was superseded by the Council of Ambassadors (1920–1931), which was organized to deal with various political questions regarding the implementation of provisions of the Treaty, after the end of World War I.^[2] Members of the commission appointed by President Woodrow Wilson included:^[3]^[4]

Tasker H. Bliss

a diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor to President Wilson.

Edward M. House

Robert Lansing

Henry White

Leonard Porter Ayres

chief of the Economic Section.

Bernard Baruch

colonial historian and chief of the Colonial Division.

George Louis Beer

chief of the Naval Section.

William S. Benson

Isaiah Bowman

chief of Current Intelligence Division.

William C. Bullitt

Robert Emmett Condon

Norman H. Davis

an American college professor and writer on economics history at the University of California.

Clive Day

chief of Current Diplomatic and Political Correspondence Division.

Ellis Loring Dresel

Allen W. Dulles

John F. Dulles

Stanley Dunbar Embick

an American college professor with Yale University, an expert on International Affairs, and author; served as a secretary to Edward M. House.

Donald Paige Frary

chief of the Labor Section.

Samuel Gompers

Ulysses S. Grant III

aide to President Wilson.

Cary T. Grayson

secretary general.

Joseph C. Grew

diplomatic secretary.

Leland B. Harrison

Charles Homer Haskins

Amos Shartle Hershey

assistant to Ambassador White.

Christian A. Herter

chief of the Food Section.

Herbert Hoover

Stanley K. Hornbeck

Manley Ottmer Hudson

chief of the Shipping Section.

Edward N. Hurley

Mark Jefferson

Douglas Wilson Johnson

chief of the Military Section.

Francis Joseph Kernan

assistant to Secretary of State Lansing.

Alexander Comstock Kirk

Harry Shepard Knapp

Thomas W. Lamont

Alexander Legge

an American politician and prominent businessman from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Vance C. McCormick

Luke McNamee

an American philosopher and college professor, former president of the City College of New York.

Sidney Edward Mezes

David Hunter Miller

Fred K. Nielsen

Frank Herman Schofield

James Brown Scott

an American college professor at Yale University.

Charles Seymour

James T. Shotwell

Charles Pelot Summerall

Leland L. Summers

Frank W. Taussig

Ralph H. Van Deman

then a professor at the University of Wisconsin, who later taught at Cornell and Columbia and became president of the American Historical Association. At the conference, Westermann advised on policy regarding the Near East.