The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-15
HENRY WHITE,
DIPL0 MAT 80
YEARS, Is DEAD
Form mer Ambassador to
France Was Operated on
Three Years Ago
GAVE NOTED SERVICE
Was American Delegate to
Versailles Peace Conference;
of Distinguished Family
GAVE NOTED SERVICE

Pittsfield. Mass. July 15.@F1--
Henry White. former ambassador to
France and Italy and American dele
gate to the Paris peace conference,
died in LenOx at 2:30 this morning.
Mr.. White underwent an operation
three years ago and had been in i'll
health much since then.
Thirty years or more an American
diplomat, Henry White was once
characterized by joseph H. Choatc
as the man who "set up school OF
diplomacy in London from which
were graduated such notables as
Phelps, Lincoln. Bayard and Hay"
Mr.. White was born in Baltimore.
Md. on March %, 1850. and was edu-
Gated in the United States and in
France. He came from an old and
distinguished Maryland family. In
1879 he married Miss Margaret
Stuyvcsant Rutherford of New York,
a sister-in-law of William X. Wander
bilt. Mrs. White died in Lenox.
Mass, in 1916. Their daughter, Mar
garet, is the Countess Scherr- Those.
wife of an officer Of the Royal Prus-
sian Cuirassiers. whose father was
formerly associated with the former
Emperor Of Germany. Mr.. White in
November. 1920, married Mrs. Emily
Vanderbilt Sloane. widow of William
Douglas Sloane. of New York.
Helps to Avoid War
In 1883 he entered the diplomatic
service as Secretary Of the United
States Legations at Vienna. going
later to London as First Secretary,
retiring. and then again assuming
the office under President Mckinley.
:<.l, M hn1A ~r~<.l kn
was appointed Ambassador to Italy
Designated by President Roosevelt
as the representative Of the United
States to the International Confer
encc on Moroccan Affairs at Alge-
ciras in 1905. Ambassador White
took a leading part in that historic
parley. the result Of which, it was
said, averted a European war.
Appointed Ambassador to France in
1907, Mr.. White resigned in 1909, the
first year of President Taft's admin
| istration. Upon retirement from his
Paris post and his return to New
York, Mr.. White was the ~uest of
honor at a dinner rendered him by
the Society Of the Pilgrims at which
his services were eulogized by John
Bigclow. who represented the United
States in France at the time of Ma
poleon Ill, Levi p. Morton, Ambas-
sador from 1881 to 1885, Joseph II
/, Choatc and others.
Scholastic Honors
Mr.. White received the honorary
degree Of Doctor Of Laws, from st
, Andrews University (Scotland) and
Johns Hopkins and Harvard. Among
his diplomatic services, besides those
. already mentioned. were the follow.
ing: He represented the United
States at the International Confer
ence in London in 1887 and 1883 for
the abolition of sugar bounties; the
international Conference on Agri-
culture at Rome in 1906 which re-
suited in the founding of the Inter
national Institute Of Agriculture; he
was chosen chairman of the Amer
lean delegation to the Fourth Pan.
(; American Conference in Buenos
Aires in 1910 and the same year spe-
cial ambassador of the United States
to the centenary Of Chilean independ'
ence. He was a member Of II clubs
in New York, London, Paris. Wash.
ington and Baltimore and trustee
of several important scientific, geo.
I graphic, philanthropic and educa.
tional institutions.