Hackworth, Green Haywood, 1883-1973

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Dates:
Birth 1883-01-23
Death 1973-06-24

Biographical notes:

Jurist and lawyer; died 1973.

From the description of Papers of Green Haywood Hackworth, 1912-1973 (bulk 1944-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062442

Biographical Note

1883, Jan. 23 Born, Prestonsburg, Ky. 1905 B.A., Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind. 1908 Married Clara E. Christy 1912 LL.B., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1918 Appointed assistant solicitor, Department of State 1922 1946 Counsel for the United States before the International Joint Commission under the terms of the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 between the United States and Great Britain 1923 Went to Lausanne, Switzerland, to assist the United States delegation in drafting treaties of extradition and of friendship and commercial intercourse with Turkey 1925 Became solicitor, Department of State 1930 United States delegate to the Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at the Hague, the Netherlands 1931 1946 Legal adviser, Department of State 1937 Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the additional post of United States member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, the Netherlands 1938 United States delegate to the eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru 1940 United States delegate to the eighth American Scientific Congress, Washington, D.C. Author of Digest of International Law. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. 8 vols. 1943 Accompanied Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the Moscow Conference, Moscow, USSR 1944 Member, American delegation at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference on international organization, Washington, D.C. 1945 Adviser to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius at the Mexico City Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, at which the Act of Chapultepec was signed Chairman, United Nations committee of jurists, meeting in Washington, D.C., which framed the tentative statue for the International Court of Justice under the United Nations Charter Adviser to United States delegation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, Calif. 1946 Senior adviser to the United States delegation at the London Conference, London, England Elected member, International Court of Justice 1955 1958 Elected president, International Court of Justice 1973, June 27 Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Green Haywood Hackworth Papers, 1912-1973, (bulk 1944-1945), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • International agencies
  • International law
  • International law
  • International relations
  • Treaties
  • World War, 1939-1945

Occupations:

  • Jurists
  • Lawyers

Places:

  • Canada (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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