The Resume

(December 22, 1856-December 21, 1937)
Born in Potsdam, New York
President of the American Bar Association (1912-13)
US Senator from Minnesota (1917-23)
US Ambassador to Great Britain (1923-25)
Secretary of State under Calvin Coolidge (1925-29)
Served on the Permanent Court of International Justice (1930-35)
With French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, negotiated the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war as an 'instrument of national policy' (1928)
Won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1929)

Why he might be annoying:

In private practice, he was counsel and a friend to many leading business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller. Then he joined the government and began prosecuting them.
As a measure of how effective the Kellogg-Briand Pact was, its signatories included the future WWII Axis Powers of Germany, Italy and Japan.
He did not live long enough to see WWII completely make a mockery of the Pact, but he did see it violated by Japan's seizure of Manchuria from China (1931) and Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (1935).

Why he might not be annoying:

While working as a handyman, he taught himself law, history, Latin and German using borrowed textbooks.
He was one of Teddy Roosevelt's most effective trustbusters, breaking up the Standard Oil monopoly.
He adopted a less high-handed position in dealing with Latin America, a stance dubbed a 'retreat from imperialism.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Attorney
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 39]
• I Died in 1937 (Ranked: 80)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Had Pneumonia
• I was Cremated
• Look at Me, I'm on the Cover of Time
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Nobel Peace Prize (Ranked: 1929)
• Profiles 32001-32250 (Ranked: 32063)
• U.S. Senators
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19371221)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying