Philip Marshall Brown (July 31, 1875 – May 10, 1966) was an American educator and diplomat, born at

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, and educated at

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. In 1900–1901, he served as secretary to

Lloyd C. Griscom Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (November 4, 1872 – February 8, 1959) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and newspaper publisher. Early life Lloyd Griscom was born on November 4, 1872, at Riverton, New Jersey. He was the son of shipping magnate Clement ...

and from 1901 to 1903 was second secretary for the American Legation of

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. He served as Secretary of legation to

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and

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, 1903–1907, and as secretary of the American Embassy of Constantinople, 1907–1908. From the latter year to 1910 he was minister to Honduras. Resigning from the diplomatic service, he was appointed instructor in international law at

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in 1912 and in the following year became assistant professor of international law and diplomacy at

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, where he was later appointed

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of international law (1915). He was associate editor of the ''

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'' and was an associate member of the

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Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. He was the author of ''Foreigners in Turkey'' (1914), ''International Realities'' (1917), ''International Society'' (1923), etc. Brown also served as the president of the American Peace Society, which publishes

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, the oldest U.S. journal on international relations.

References

* 1875 births 1966 deaths American diplomats American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers Harvard University faculty Members of the Institut de Droit International Princeton University faculty Williams College alumni People from Hampden, Maine {{US-edu-bio-stub