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Theodore S. Woolsey

Full Name: Theodore Salisbury Woolsey

Professor of International Law

Centurion, 1894–1929

born October 22, 1852
New Haven, Connecticut
died April 24, 1929
New Haven, Connecticut
elected June 2, 1894
Age forty-one
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Member portrait of Theodore S. Woolsey

Archivist’s Notes

Half-brother of George Woolsey

Century Memorial

Professor Theodore Salisbury Woolsey held the chair of international law at Yale during the thirty-two years from 1879 to 1911. His high qualities as educator came by right of inheritance; for his father was the eminent scholar, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, president of the University for twenty-five years, and his uncle another Yale president, Timothy Dwight. Professor Woolsey himself contributed notably, both by instruction of his classes and by magazine articles on the subject, to the spreading among our people of sound information and clear reasoning on the problems, greatly obscured when he took his chair at Yale, of our own international relations and responsibilities.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1930 Century Association Yearbook

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