House, Edward M.

House, Edward M.

▪ American diplomat
in full  Edward Mandell House  
born July 26, 1858, Houston, Texas, U.S.
died March 28, 1938, New York, N.Y.
 American diplomat and confidential adviser to President Woodrow Wilson (1913–21) who played a key role in framing the conditions of peace to end World War I.

      Independently wealthy, House turned from business to politics and between 1892 and 1904 served as an adviser to Texas governors, one of whom gave him the honorary title of colonel. Thereafter he was commonly known as Colonel House. He was active in the presidential campaign of Democrat Woodrow Wilson (Wilson, Woodrow) in 1912, and after Wilson was elected he became the new president's most trusted adviser. He developed excellent relations with congressional leaders and had an important role in winning congressional support for Wilson's legislative program.

 After the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, House became Wilson's principal representative to the governments of Great Britain, France, and Germany. He visited those nations in 1915 and again in 1916 to explore the possibility of mediation by the United States but found their leaders generally evasive or unresponsive. With the U.S. declaration of war against Germany (April 6, 1917), House was given responsibility for working with representatives of the Allied nations to coordinate programs in such fields as manpower, finance, supplies, and shipping. He helped the president with many of his wartime speeches, including the one outlining the Fourteen Points, which Wilson proposed as the basis for peace at the end of the war. When Germany requested a discussion of peace terms (October 1918), House represented the United States at the Inter-Allied conference, where he persuaded the Allied leaders to accept the Fourteen Points as the basis for a peace treaty.

      House was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and worked closely with Wilson in the drafting of the covenant of the League of Nations. As the negotiations wore on, however, House, who was a realist and an apostle of compromise, began to lose the confidence of Wilson, an idealist who found compromise distasteful. The gap between the two men widened, and, after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919), they never saw each other again.

Additional Reading
A standard biography is A.D. Howden Smith, Mr. House of Texas (1940).

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