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"VANCE CRISWELL M:CORMICK (1872-), American politician, was born at Harrisburg, Pa., June 19 1872. He was educated at Yale (Ph.B. 1893). In 1900 he became a member of the city council of Harrisburg, and from 1902 to 1905 was mayor. In 1914 he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. He was active in promoting President Wilson's reelection in 1916 and was that year chairman of the National Democratic Campaign Committee. From 1917 to 1919 he was chairman of the War Trade Board which supervised exports to neutral countries, after the entry of America into the World War. Soon after his appointment he visited England and France on a war mission. In Dec. 1918 he was invited to join President Wilson in Paris as adviser, and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace the following year. In Feb. 1919 he was appointed a member of the Supreme Allied Blockade Council and the Economic Council. Before his appointment as chairman of the National Democratic Committee in 1916 he was a director of the Federal Reserve Board.


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