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    James W. Gerard

    American judge and diplomat

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  2. Gerard oversaw a number of the legal interests of the Daly family, and he purchased a cattle ranch of his own in the area. Today the University of Montana holds his collected papers. Gerard died on September 6, 1951, aged 84, in Southampton, New York. He was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. Notes

    • 1892–1904
    • Major
  3. Gerard, Face to Face, p. 30. James Watson Gerard, U. S. ambassador to Berlin between 1913 and 1917, was in many ways representative of Americans in their perceptions of Imperial Germany in that period. In his personal writings and despatches to Washington, Gerard’s views came to be unflattering, inspired by suspicions about Berlin’s ...

  4. His solution was startlingly simple: to hang German-Americans from lamp posts. Unsurprisingly Gerard was unsuccessful in his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1920. Gerard, who published My Four Years in Germany in 1917 and Face to Face With Kaiserism in 1918, died in 1951. His broader memoirs were published the year of his death.

  5. SOUTHAMPTON, L. I., Sept. 6 --James W. Gerard, United States Ambassador to Germany before this country's entry into the first World War, died today at his home here. His age was 84.

  6. Gerard, James W. James W. Gerard (1867-1951), attorney and diplomat, was an outspoken critic of Nazi Germany’s persecution of the Jews. Gerard, who served as U.S. ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917, spoke at a number of anti-Hitler rallies in the 1930s. He was a speaker at the May 1933 founding conference of the American League for the ...

  7. Aug 4, 2015 · James Watson Gerard Jr served as Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917, and as a Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1908 to 1913. As a philanthropist, Gerard was involved in many New York charitable institutions and maintained a summer home for boys in Rockland Park, New York. He served as Major in the National Guard from 1908-1911.

  8. A great fortress besieged, frowns down on the plain under the cold moonlight. From its towering walls the useless mouths are thrust forth---if refused food by the enemy, to die---the children, the maimed, the old, the halt, the blind, all those who cannot help in the defence, who consume food needed to strengthen the weakened garrison.