35 Facts About Edward Mandell House

Edward Mandell House was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.

Edward Mandell House was known as Colonel House, although his rank was honorary and he had performed no military service.

Edward Mandell House was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912.

Edward Mandell House became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

Edward Mandell House was born July 26,1858, in Houston, Texas, the last of seven children of Mary Elizabeth and Thomas William House Sr.

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Edward Mandell House's father sent ships laden with cotton to evade the Union blockade in the Gulf of Mexico during the American Civil War.

Edward Mandell House traded Texas cotton through Matamoros, Mexico, in exchange for equipment and ammunition.

Edward Mandell House went on to study at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1877 where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Edward Mandell House left at the beginning of his third year to care for his sick father, who died in 1880.

Edward Mandell House eventually sold the cotton plantations, and invested in banking.

Edward Mandell House was a founder of the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway.

In 1912, Edward Mandell House anonymously published a novel called Philip Dru: Administrator, in which the title character leads the democratic Western US in a civil war against the plutocratic East, becoming the dictator of America.

Edward Mandell House was reappointed by Culberson, Sayers, and Lanham, and was known as "Colonel House", the title which he used for the rest of his career.

Edward Mandell House became an intimate of Wilson and helped set up his administration.

Edward Mandell House was offered the cabinet position of his choice but declined, choosing instead "to serve wherever and whenever possible".

Edward Mandell House was even provided living quarters within the White Edward Mandell House.

Edward Mandell House continued as an adviser to Wilson particularly in the area of foreign affairs.

Edward Mandell House functioned as Wilson's chief negotiator in Europe during the negotiations for peace and as chief deputy for Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference.

Edward Mandell House was enthusiastic but lacked deep insight into European affairs and relied on the information received from British diplomats, especially the British foreign secretary Edward Grey, to shape his outlook.

Thereby Grey re-enforced Edward Mandell House's pro-Allied proclivities so that Wilson's chief adviser promoted the British position.

Edward Mandell House felt that the war was an epic battle between democracy and autocracy; he argued the United States ought to help Britain and France win a limited Allied victory.

Edward Mandell House supported Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Czechoslovak legions especially in Russia as well.

Wilson had Edward Mandell House assemble "The Inquiry", a team of academic experts to devise efficient postwar solutions to all the world's problems.

In October 1918, when Germany petitioned for peace based on the Fourteen Points, Wilson charged Edward Mandell House with working out details of an armistice with the Allies.

Edward Mandell House traveled in Europe to explore the possibility of peace as Wilson's unofficial agent.

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Edward Mandell House helped Wilson outline his Fourteen Points and worked with the president on the drafting of the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Edward Mandell House served on the League of Nations Commission on Mandates with Lord Milner and Lord Robert Cecil of Great Britain, Henri Simon of France, Viscount Chinda of Japan, Guglielmo Marconi of Italy, and George Louis Beer as adviser.

On May 30,1919, Edward Mandell House participated in a meeting in Paris which laid the groundwork for establishment of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private organization based in New York.

In February 1919, Edward Mandell House took his place on the Council of Ten, where he negotiated compromises unacceptable to Wilson.

Edward Mandell House decided that House had taken too many liberties in negotiations, and relegated him to the sidelines.

Edward Mandell House continued to send memos and reports to the president, but he was an invalid and his wife made sure he did not see any of them.

In 1932, House supported Franklin D Roosevelt for the presidency without joining his inner circle.

Edward Mandell House died on March 28,1938, in Manhattan, New York City, following a bout of pleurisy.

Statue of Edward Mandell House, financed by Ignacy Jan Paderewski in 1932, is located at Skaryszewski Park in Warsaw.

Edward Mandell House is considered a hero in Poland for his advocacy of Polish independence after World War I, which was incorporated into the Fourteen Points and resulted in the reestablishment of the Polish nation.