Theodore Marburg Sr. (July 10, 1862 – March 4, 1946) was an American
jurist
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,
diplomat
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and
internationalist
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Biography
He was born on July 10, 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland
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. He was the United States Minister to Belgium from 1912 to 1914. He was the executive secretary of the League to Enforce Peace
The League to Enforce Peace was a non-state American organization established in 1915 to promote the formation of an international body for world peace. It was formed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by American citizens concerned by the outbr ...
, and a prominent advocate of the League of Nations
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.[
He died on March 4, 1946.]
Legacy
His papers are archived at the Library of Congress
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. His daughter, Christine, married Dutch statesman Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (7 March 1888 – 16 August 1978) was a Dutch nobleman and statesman, primarily noted for being the last colonial Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. He was t ...
. His son, Theodore Marburg Jr. was one of a small number of Americans who joined the British to fight in World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
before the Americans joined the war.[McNeil, Virginia Yerby, The Baltimore Sun Magazine, (Baltimore, Maryland). February 10, 1946, page 1 and 15, accessed November 10, 1946, at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14929884/ and https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14929888/]
References
Further reading
*Atkinson, Henry A. ''Theodore Marburg : the man and his work'' New York (1951)
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1862 births
1946 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Belgium
People from Baltimore