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Daniel William Lawler "He was mayor of Saint Paul from 1908 to 1910. In 1912, he ran for the United States Senate from Minnesota, losing once again to Nelson. He also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in 1916, losing to future United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Lawler was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention that year." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_W._Lawler) In 1916, he was considered by President Wilson as U. S. ambassador to Chile (according to The Cook County news-herald., January 06, 1916, Image 5, with photo).

I think this is Chong-Hsu Henry Wang, a Yale undergraduate who won the university's junior class Ten Eyck prize for speaking in March, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E7DA1238E633A... His speech warned of Japan's aggressive intentions toward China: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E5D61439EF32A... He graduated Yale in 1916 and received a Masters from Princeton in 1917. books.google.com/books?id=2DJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452&d... In September, 1921 (the date on the negative at upper left), a C.H. Wang came to the U.S. as Chief Justice of the Chinese Supreme Court and delegate to the Washington conference on disarmament and Far East questions, and as a member of a committee to revise the League of Nations covenant. However, this C.H. Wang is apparently Wang Chung-hui. books.google.com/books?id=K6EqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA237&l... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6DE1431EF33A...

artolog: Thanks for identifying Wang for us. It seems likely this is the same person. We'll include some of your information next time we update the description.

The current caption confuses two people. Art is correct in stating that Chief Justice Wang Chung-hui (also C.H. Wang) is a different person. An obituary from 1984 states that Cheng-Hsu Wang was a banker who graduated from Yale (1916) and Princeton (M.A. History and Politics, 1917): "He worked on Wall Street until volunteering with the International Y.M.C.A. in France during World War I. Returning later to China, he was in banking in Singapore until he became manager of Overseas-Banking China Corp. in Shanghai. Wang returned to New York in 1936 as president of the newly established New York office of the Bank of China. During the turmoil and aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War, he was transferred to Burma, later to Kunming, Rangoon, and Calcutta. Following the communist takeover of mainland China and the recognition of it by India, Wang got to Hong Kong in 1957, and thence, with his wife, Eling, to the U.S., where they settled in Washington, D.C. Eling died in 1980." books.google.com/books?id=_BZbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18&am... A photo of Cheng-Hsu Henry Wang in 1916 can be found in his Yale yearbook, verifying the subject of this photograph: archive.org/stream/historyofclassof1916yale#page/n337/mod... Most sources spell his given name "Cheng-Hsu"

Nick, Thank you for catching this conflation of two people in our description. We will use the information you've provided to correct the caption.

that's quite a hankie on mr. welk.

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