Wilson did not know House unfit the beginning of the canvass for his presidential nomination, Wilson was then governor of New Jersey and House was a power in Texas state polities. He was not yet in the Public' spotlight but his work in Texas had made him known to national leaders of the Democratic Party.
His father had left hin an inherit. ance of $20,000 a year which enabled him to pursue unhampered his interest in polities, State polities began to pall on him after he had helped bring about the elections of four governors in succession and_at least. tone United States Senator. From his days he had been keenly ted in national and internation al-affairs, He was an avid reader Of books on polities and economics. dear to Preserve Peace Behind his studies was the idea of working out a distribution of nation fal boundaries that would make civilization safe from war, Later he was to have an undreamed-of oppor~ tunity to expound his theories before the world's leading statesmen at Versailles and to embody some of them in the Covenant of the League of Nations.
House was born at Houston, Texas, July 26, 1858, the youngest of seven children, "His forebears wore of Dutch extraction, but had lived in England for many venerations: His father arrived in Texas when it was still a section of the Mexican republic.
Young House was graduated from a kwammer school at New Haven, Con., ud attended Cornell University! In 1661 he married Miss Lucille Hunter of Austin, They had two daughters, Mrs. Randolph Tucker of Boston, Mass, and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss of New York.—Reuter.
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