Elihu Root
New York, Home of Distinguished Americans
February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937
Secretary of State in the Cabinet of
President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905-09
Secretary of War, 1899-1904
Senator from New York, 1909-1915
lived in a house on this site from 1871 to 1878
Marker is on Irving Place, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
