U.S. AMBASSADOR DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 9

U.S. AMBASSADOR DEAD

MR. MYRON T. HERRICK (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) PARIS, Sunday. The death has occurred of Mr. Myron T. Herrick, United States Ambassador to Prance, in his 75th year. The late Mr. Myron T. Herrick was born in October, 1854, at Huntington, Ohio. He studied law and in 1888 went into business, interesting himself chiefly in banking, and in 1894 became president of the Cleveland Savings Bank. He was a leading member of the Republican Party, but, though post after post was offered him by Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, he declined them all for business reasons. It was not until 1903 that he allowed himself to be elected Governor of Ohio for the term 1903-06. In 1912 Mr. Herrick went to Paris as Ambassador. When in September, 1914, the French Government was transferred to Bordeaux in view of the advance of the German armies on the capital, and most of the foreign diplomats followed, he remained in Paris, where he thought he could better attend to the various matters entrusted to his care. His attitude did much to allay the alarm which was felt by some Parisians. With his wife he did much relief work. In October, 1914, he returned to America, where Mr. Woodrow Wilfcon, a Democrat President, had been elected. At the latter’s special request he had remained for a time in Paris. He then devoted himself to his extensive business interests and to war work. In 1921 the new Republican President, Mr. Harding, sent him back to Paris as Ambassador.