Person

Turlington, Edgar

1891–1959

NCpedia WWW site, Apr. 19, 2017 (Turlington, Edgar Willis; born 24 Oct. 1891, Smithfield, N.C., died 27 Sept. 1959; lawyer; joined the Department of State, where he was a special assistant (1917-20); assistant solicitor (1920-25); legal adviser to the American delegation at the Conference on Near Eastern Affairs at Lausanne and to the American high commissioner in Constantinople (1923); assistant chief, Division of Near Eastern Affairs (1925); legal adviser to the American ambassador in Havana (1930-32); chief counsel, Mexican Claims Commission (1935-38); member of the advisory commission, Harvard Research in International Law (1935-42); and chairman, District of Columbia branch, Commission to Study the Organization of Peace (1944-45)) |u http://www.ncpedia.org/biography/turlington-edgar-willis