HERRICK, MYRON T. (1854-1929), American diplomat, was born at Huntington, O., Oct. 9, 1854. He studied law in Cleveland and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He practised in Cleveland from 1878 to 1886 and then turned his attention to banking and manufacturing. He also became interested in poli tics and held many local and State offices in the Republican organ izations, serving six times as delegate to the Republican national convention and once (1892) as presidential elector from Ohio. From 1903-06 he was governor of Ohio, having been elected by the largest majority that had been given to an Ohio governor up to that time. He was forced by his business interests to decline appointments as secretary of the Treasury under McKinley and again under Taft, but in 1912 accepted the latter's appointment as ambassador to France. He continued to serve under Wilson, and at the outbreak of the World War also assumed charge of the German and Austrian embassies and later those of Turkey and minor nations. During the Marne offensive of 1914 when the French Government moved to Bordeaux, Herrick maintained headquarters in Paris. He formed the American Committee, which gave help to Americans and others travelling in Europe at the outbreak of the war. With Mrs. Herrick he established the American Ambulance hospital at Neuilly, staffed and man aged by Americans. After his return to America in Dec. 1914, he continued to devote much of his time to war relief activities and in recognition of his services France conferred upon him the cross of the Legion of Honour. Herrick was one of the initiators of the rural credit movement in the United States ; he published Rural Credits (1914). In April 1921 he was again appointed ambassador to France and served in this post until his death in Paris on March 31, 1929.
See T. Bentley Mott, Myron T. Herrick (1929) .