Sidney Edward Mezes
Sidney Edward Mezes | |
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| Born | October 19, 1863 Belmont, California |
| Died | September 10, 1931 (aged 67) Pasadena, California |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
Sidney Edward Mezes (September 23, 1863 – September 10, 1931) was an American philosopher.
Biography
He was born in what is now the town of
University of Texas
, becoming a professor there in 1906. From 1908 he was president of the University.
In 1914 he became president of the College of the City of New York. In 1917 he was appointed as Director of the Inquiry, a think tank set up by Woodrow Wilson to study the diplomatic position that would follow a victorious end to World War I. He was part of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
In 1896, he married Annie Olive Hunter, a sister-in-law of Edward M. House.
He died on September 10, 1931, in Pasadena, California.
Works
- The Conception of God, A Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of the Divine Idea as a Demonstrable Reality (1897) with Joseph Le Conte, George Holmes Howison
- Ethics, Descriptive and Explanatory (1901)
- What Really Happened at Paris, edited by Edward Mandell House(1921) contributor
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