Albert Henry Washburn memorabilia

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 37-5-4056

Scope and content

Cabinet card photographs of Cornell classmates, group photo of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Reunion photograph (n.d.), and miscellaneous cabinet card photographs; correspondence of Alfred and Florence Washburn with Bertha and Herbert Elmer; letters from Emily Emerson Day to Florence Washburn, 1930s; clippings about H. C. Elmer; printing plate for a dinner menu when he was U.S. minister to Austria, 1926; Beta Theta Pi magazine, Vol. XVI, No. 2, January 1889; and1889 Cornell diploma (in Latin).

Dates

1889-1939.

Creator

Washburn, Albert Henry, 1866-1930. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Cornell University Class of 1889. As a student, Washburn worked as a secretary to Andrew Dickson White. After graduation, he joined the U.S. Consular Service and served in the U.S. Legation in Magdeburg, Germany. From 1893-1897, he acted as private secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge. He received an LL.B. degree from Georgetown University in 1895, was appointed Assistant U.S. District Attorney in Massachusetts in 1897, worked in the U.S. Treasury Dept. specializing in customs cases from 1900 to 1904, and was associated in private practice with attorney Albert Comstock beginning in 1904. In 1919, he received an A.M. degree from Dartmouth College and taught political science and international law at Dartmouth. In 1922, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in charge of the U.S. Legation in Austria, serving until 1929. In 1922, he arbitrated in the Austrian-Yugoslavian Commercial Dispute, and in 1923 represented the U.S. at the Hague Conference examining the rules of warfare. In 1929, he was considered for the post of Ambassador to Japan, but he died unexpectedly in 1930.