professor of political science, commercial attache, b. Hillside, Wis. He graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (B.L., 1902), did graduate work in Berlin and Madrid, and at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1906). From 1906 to 1910 he taught political science at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and in 1910 came to the Univ. of Wisconsin as professor of political science. He served in this capacity until 1920, but during World War I left Wisconsin to serve as director of the Bureau of Foreign Agents of the War Trade Board (1918-1919). He was commercial attache to the American Embassy in Madrid (1919-1920), to the American Legation in Havana (1921-1922), and to the American Embassy in Paris (1922-1927). In 1928 he was adviser to the Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba. Returning to Wisconsin in 1929, he was director of the university's school of commerce (1929-1935), and from 1935 until his death was professor of economics. He was the author of Caribbean Interests of the United States (1916), Mexico and Its Reconstruction (1921), Caribbean Since 1900 (1935), and several other works. Who's Who in Amer., 21 (1940); M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Madison Capital Times, fan. 13, 1941; N.Y. Herald Tribune, Jan. 14, 1941.

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