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Brigadier General
Edawrd P. MEANY, counsellor-at-law, judge advocate general of New Jersey, was
born in Louisville, Kentucky, May 13, 1854, son of Edward A. and Maria Lavina
(SHANNON) MEANY. He is of Irish and English ancestry. His father was for a number
of years conspicuously identified with the jurisprudence of the south,
occupying an honored place upon the bench and as a member of the bar. Commodore
BARRY and Captain John MEANY, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were members of
his father’s family. His maternal grandfather was Henry Gould SHANNON, who
settled in 1810 at Louisville Kentucky. General MEANY was educated in the
schools of his native State and at the St. Louis University, St. Louis,
Missouri. He was prepared for the practice of his profession in the most
careful and thorough manner by his father and was admitted to the bar in 1878.
He was for many years counsel for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
and held several positions of prominence and confidence in that corporation and
in many of its associate companies. General MEANY has also acted on many
occasions as an officer and director of important railway, financial, and other
corporations. In 1884, as vice-president of the New Mexico Central and Southern
Railway Company, he represented that company in Mexico and Europe, particularly
as a representative of that company in connection with its affairs with the
government of the Republic of Mexico. He is vice-president and director of the
Trust Company of New Jersey, a director of the Colonial Life Insurance Company
of America, and the Laurel Coal and Land Company and Pond Fork Coal and Land
Company of West Virginia. He was appointed judge advocate general of New Jersey
in 1893 with the rank of brigadier-general. In 1894 he was appointed one of the
Palisades commissioners of the State of New Jersey, and has been a trustee and
treasurer of the Newark Free Public Library. General MEANY is a Democrat in
politics. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the National Democratic
conventions of 1896 and 1900 and at both conventions he earnestly supported the
principles advocated by the Old Line Democracy and vigorously protested against
the abandonment by the party of those principles.
Watson
Gerard III (August 25, 1867
– September 6, 1951) was a United States lawyer, diplomat, and justice of the New York Supreme Court. Gerard
was born in Geneseo, New York. His father, James W. Gerard, was a lawyer and
Democratic Party politician in New York. and his grandfather, also James W. Gerard, was
a noted trial lawyer and civic reformer in New York. He
graduated from Columbia University (A.B.
1890; A.M. 1891) and from New York Law School (LL.B.
1892). He was chairman of the Democratic campaign committee of New York County for four years. He served on the National Guard of the
State of New York for four years. He served through the Spanish–American War (1898)
on the staff of General McCoskry Butt. From 1900 to 1904 he was quartermaster,
with the rank of major, of the 1st Brigade of the Guard. He was elected to
the New York Supreme Court in
1907, where he served as a justice until 1911. Under President Woodrow Wilson, he served as the American Ambassador to Germany from 1913 to 1917. In 1914, Gerard
was the Democratic (Tammany Hall) candidate
for U.S. Senator from New York.
He defeated Anti-Tammany candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in
the Democratic primary, but lost the election to James W. Wadsworth, Jr. At
the outbreak of World War I in 1914,
Gerard assumed the care of British interests in Germany, later visiting the
camps where British prisoners were confined and doing much to alleviate their
condition. His responsibilities were further increased by the fact that German
interests in France, Great Britain, and Russia were placed in the care of the
American embassies in those countries, the American embassy in Berlin thus
becoming a sort of clearing house. From first-hand knowledge he was able to
settle the question, much disputed among the Germans themselves, as to the
official attitude of the German government toward the violation of Belgian
neutrality. At
the request of Gottlieb von Jagow, after
the fall of Liège, he served
as intermediary for offering the Belgians peace and indemnity if they would
grant passage of German troops through their country. On August 10, 1914, the
Kaiser placed in Gerard's hands a telegram addressed personally to President
Wilson declaring that Belgian neutrality "had to be violated by Germany on
strategical grounds." At the request of a high German official, this
telegram was not made public as the Kaiser had wished but was sent privately to
the President. After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania with many United States residents on
board, on May 7, 1915, Gerard's position became more difficult. The
German government asked him to leave the country in January 1917. Diplomatic
relations were broken off on February 3, and he left Germany. He was detained
for a time because of rumours that the German ambassador in America was being
mistreated and German ships had been confiscated. When these rumors were
disproved, he was allowed to depart. He retired from diplomatic service
entirely in July 1917.
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