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Root served as Republican Senator from New York from 1909-1915.   

Root served as Republican Senator from New York from 1909-1915.   

==Carnegie Endowment==

==Carnegie Endowment==

Root was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1912 for his leadership of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It had been established and funded by philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]] in 1910 to promote world peace. It became not only an educational center but also a catalyst for political activities, and provided much of the early initiative in internationalist opposition to the coercive league of nations supported by the League to Enforce Peace. The dominant personalities in the Endowment were Root, Nicholas Murray Butler (President of Columbia University), and James Brown Scott. They were eager to develop public opinion in support of US participation in a postwar international organization, but one founded on the voluntarism of the prewar Hague system. In varying ways the three men took on President Wilson and the League to Enforce Peace, headed by [[William Howard Taft]] and A. Lawrence Lowell. The Endowment's three leaders were able to guide its Endowment's client internationalists into voluntarism. They maintained that the Endowment was above the fray, but actually used it to stiffen opposition in the United States to sanctionism and to mobilize discreetly the conservative internationalists.  

Root was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1912 for his leadership of the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]. It had been established and funded by philanthropist [[Andrew Carnegie]] in 1910 to promote world peace. It became not only an educational center but also a catalyst for political activities, and provided much of the early initiative in internationalist opposition to the coercive league of nations supported by the League to Enforce Peace. The dominant personalities in the Endowment were Root, Nicholas Murray Butler (President of Columbia University), and James Brown Scott. They were eager to develop public opinion in support of US participation in a postwar international organization, but one founded on the voluntarism of the prewar Hague system. In varying ways the three men took on President Wilson and the League to Enforce Peace, headed by [[William Howard Taft]] and A. Lawrence Lowell. The Endowment's three leaders were able to guide its Endowment's client internationalists into voluntarism. They maintained that the Endowment was above the fray, but actually used it to stiffen opposition in the United States to sanctionism and to mobilize discreetly the conservative internationalists.

==Root Mission==

==Root Mission==