predecessor successor death_date birth_place president death_place title party profession birth_date term_start order spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
william jennings bryan bainbridge colby 30 october 1928 watertown , new york , u.s. woodrow wilson new york city , u.s. united states secretary of state democratic lawyer , politician 17 october 1864 june 24 , 1915 42nd eleanor death -rrb- foster lansing -lrb- 1890 - 1928 , his robert lansing cph.3b47713.jpg robert lansing
 february 13 , 1920 robert lansing amherst college
robert lansing

robert lansing -lrb- october 17 , 1864 -- october 30 , 1928 -rrb- was an american lawyer and conservative democratic politician who served as legal advisor to the state department at the outbreak of world war i , and then as united states secretary of state under president woodrow wilson from 1915 to 1920 .
before u.s. involvement in the war , lansing vigorously advocated in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations .
he later advocated u.s. participation in world war i , negotiated the lansing -- ishii agreement with japan in 1917 and was a member of the american commission to negotiate peace at paris in 1919 .
