David Hunter Miller

Born in New York City on January 2, 1875, he became an American lawyer known for his deep expertise in treaties and international law. He practiced law in New York and later took on major public roles connected to U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic history.

During and after World War I, he served on the Inquiry, the research group that gathered information for the Paris Peace Conference, and went on to act as legal adviser to the American commission there. He also took part in drafting the covenant of the League of Nations, placing him close to one of the central efforts to build a new international order after the war.

He later worked for the U.S. Department of State and headed the American delegation to the 1930 Hague Conference on the codification of international law. Alongside his legal career, he published major documentary works, including My Diary at the Conference of Paris, with Documents and the multi-volume Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. He died in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 1961.