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John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, Delaware, United States on December 3, 1860.
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John Bassett Moore was born in Smyrna, Delaware, United States on December 3, 1860.
Moore graduated in 1880 from the University of Virginia, he studied law.
Moore was admitted to the bar in 1883. After serving as assistant secretary of state from 1886 to 1891, he became the first professor of law and diplomacy at Columbia University. He remained at Columbia, until his retirement in 1924. Moore took many leaves of absence, however, for government service. He was assistant secretary of state again in 1898; served on the commission that concluded the peace treaty with Spain in 1898; attended inter-American conferences at Buenos Aires in 1910 and Washington, D. C. , in 1915; and presided over the commission of jurists that met at The Hague in 1922-1923 to formulate rules for the wartime use of aircraft and radio. He was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1912 to 1928, and he was the first American elected to the Permanent Court of International Justice, on which he served from 1921 to 1928. Moore died in New York City on Nov. 12, 1947. The best known of his publications is A Digest of International Law (8 vols. , 1906).
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