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The Inquiry was a study group established in 1917 by Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. A devout Presbyterianism and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913.... to prepare materials for the peace negotiations following World War I
World War I
World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers.... . The group, composed of around 150 academics, was directed by presidential adviser Edward House
Edward M. House
Edward Mandell House was an American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the purely honorific title of Colonel House, although he had no military experience, he had enormous personal influence with U.S.... and supervised directly by philosopher Sidney Mezes
Sidney Edward Mezes
Sidney Edward Mezes was an USA philosopher. He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother.... . The group worked from the premises of the American Geographical Society
American Geographical Society
The American Geographical Society is an organization of professional geographers. It was founded in 1851 in New York City. Most Fellows of the Society are Americans, but among them have always been a significant number of Fellows from around the world.... of New York.
Mezes's senior colleagues were geographer Isaiah Bowman
Isaiah Bowman
Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an United States geographer. He was educated at Harvard University and Yale University where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935.... , journalist Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann was an influential United States award-winning writer, journalist, and political commentator. Lippman was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 and 1962 for his syndicated newspaper column, "Today and Tomorrow".... , historian James Shotwell
James T. Shotwell
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0095, James Shotwell.jpgJames Thomson Shotwell, was a Canadian-born American history professor. He is perhaps best remembered for his instrumental role in the creation of the International Labor Organization in 1919, as well as for his guiding influence promoting inclusion of a declaration of human rights in... , and lawyer David Hunter Miller.
The American Commission to Negotiate Peace, successor to the Inquiry, participated in the peace treaty at the Treaty of Versailles, January 18 ? December 9, 1919.... , traveled to the Paris Peace Conference
Paris Peace Conference, 1919
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors in World War I to set the peace terms for Germany and other defeated nations, and to deal with the empires of the defeated powers following the Armistice of 1918.... in 1919, accompanying Wilson aboard the USS George Washington to France.
