Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1902 — AMBASSADOR WHITE TO RETIRE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMBASSADOR WHITE TO RETIRE.

Envoy to Berlin to Quit Official Life Next November. The return home of Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador at Berlin, which has been rumored since family bereavements and business interests gave the ambassador a desire to give up his jost, is said to be set for November. Mr. White began his diplomatic career 4* attache of the United States embassy

at St. Petersburg over forty years ago. He was president of Cornell University from 1867 to 1885, and while still the head of that institution was for two years minister to Germany. From 1892 to 1894 he was minister to Russia, and In 1897 was appointed ambassador to Germany. He was chairman of the United States delegation to The Hague peace conferencs.

ANDREW D. WHITE.