1845 - Born in Clinton, New York on the 15th of February.
1867 - Root graduated from the Law School of New York University.
1889 - Root was a member of the Union League Club of New York and twice served as its president.
1899 - He served as the United States Secretary of War under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
1904 - Root left the cabinet and returned to private practice as a lawyer.
1905 - President Roosevelt named Root to be the United States Secretary of State after the death of John Hay.
1906 - Root persuaded those governments to participate in the Hague Peace Conference.
1909-1915 - Root served a term in the United States Senate as a Republican from New York.
1910 - Root served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
1912 - Received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1916 - Root sought the Republican presidential nomination. However, at the Republican National Convention, Root reached his peak strength of 103 votes on the first ballot.
1917 - In June, at age 72, he was sent to Russia by President Wilson to arrange American co-operation with the new revolutionary government.
1922 - President Warren G. Harding appointed him as a delegate to the International Conference on the Limitation of Armaments.
1921 - He was the founding chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, established in New York.
1937 - Died on the 7th of February in Clinton, New York, with his family by his side. He is buried at the Hamilton College Cemetery.
“We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”—Theodore Roosevelt, 1904Americans like to think they have no imperial past...