MOORE, JOHN BASSETT (186o— ), American jurist, was born at Smyrna, Del., on Dec. 3, 186o. He graduated at the University of Virginia in 188o, studied law in an office in Wilming ton, Del., and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. Two years later he entered the Department of State as a law clerk, and in 1886 was appointed third assistant secretary of State. He was secretary to the conference on Samoan affairs in 1887 and U.S. secretary at the conference on North Atlantic fisheries, 1887-88. He was appointed professor of international law and diplo macy at Columbia university, 1891, frequently being granted leave of absence to accept appointments in the national interest. On the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 he was appointed assistant secretary of State, and he' acted as secretary and counsel to the U.S. peace commissioners at Paris at the close of the war. Among the later official positions which he filled were those of U.S. agent before the United States and Dominican Arbitration Tri bunal, 1904; U.S. delegate to the fourth International American conference at Buenos Aires, 191o; special U.S. plenipotentiary
to the Chilean Centenary, 191o; U.S. delegate to the International commission of jurists, Rio de Janeiro, 1912; counsellor to the Department of State, 1913-14; a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, 1913 ; U.S. delegate to the Pan-American financial congress, 1915. He was appointed in 1921 a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from which he resigned on April 29, 1928, to edit a comprehensive historical collection of treaties. He was also U.S. delegate and chairman of the International Conference on rules for aircraft and radio in time of war held at The Hague, 1922-23.