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Bainbridge Colby ( December 22 , 1869 – April 11 , 1950 ) was an American lawyer, a founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson 's last Secretary Of State . Born in St. Louis, Missouri , he graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School , and was admitted to the New York bar. He served in the New York State Assembly from 1901 to 1902, was a special assistant to the United States Attorney General in an Anti-trust action in 1917, and represented the U.S. at the Inter-Allied Conference at Paris the same year. Wilson appointed him Secretary of State from March 23 , 1920 and served until March 4 , 1921 . He supported the President's policies firmly (his predecessor Robert Lansing had not) while the President suffered from severe side effects of a series of strokes. He supported the League Of Nations and established a precedent for not recognizing newly Communist Russia which remained in place until 1933. He was a partner in Wilson's law firm from 1921 until 1923 and continued with the law for the remainder of his career. EXTERNAL LINKS
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