Decker, Clinton A. (Clinton Augustine)

Decker traveled to Russia as part of the American Advisory Commission to Russia of Railway Experts (1917).

The Commission, led by John F. Stevens, was created by President Woodrow Wilson to assist Russia's Provisional Government by improving the Trans-Siberian (Velikaia Sibirskaia Magistral) and Chinese Eastern Railways. Decker later went to Japan to await the arrival of the Russian Railway Service Corps (RRSC), and was named secretary of the Inter-Allied Technical Board, which was formed under the U.S. State Department to place the RRSC along the railway to protect Allied interests. After returning to the United States, Decker became the U.S. representative of the Inter-Allied Technical Board (1919-1922). He left the State Department in 1923.

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