Editing Henry L. Stimson (section)

==Early life and career==
[[File:Henry L. Stimson, age 10.jpg|thumb|upright|left|160px|Young Stimson with Mimi, the cat, portrait by [[Dora Wheeler Keith]]]]
[[File:HLStimson.jpg|thumb|left|upright|155px|Stimson as a young lawyer]]

Stimson was born in 1867 in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], the son of [[Lewis Atterbury Stimson]], a prominent surgeon, and his wife, the former Candace Thurber Wheeler. When he was nine, his mother died of kidney failure, and he was then sent to [[boarding school]].

He spent summers with his grandmother [[Candace Wheeler]] at her [[Catskills]] country house and played with his uncle Dunham Wheeler, who was almost the same age, in "the Armory", which was their nickname for one corner of a large room in the house.<ref>{{cite book |author=Amelia Peck and Carol Irish |title=Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |year=2001| page= 88 |isbn=978-1-58839-002-8}}</ref><ref>Wheeler, Candace, The Annals of Onteora, 1887-1914, privately printed, Erle W. Whitfield, New York (1914)(Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)(p. 24)</ref> Roaming the Catskill Mountains, he grew to love the outdoors and would become an avid sportsman.<ref>Candace Wheeler, Yesterdays in a Busy Life, Harper & Brothers: New York  (1918) p. 299)</ref>
 
He was educated at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], where he gained a lifelong interest in religion and a close relationship with the school. He later donated Woodley, his [[Washington, D.C.]] estate, to the school in his will (the property is now the [[Maret School]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19380515&id=NrNQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5483,4626216 |title=Stimson Estate Goes to Phillips Academy |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |page=13 |date=1938-05-15 |access-date=2014-02-06 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was an honorary lifetime member of [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s [[Boone and Crockett Club]], North America's first wildlife conservation organization.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boone and Crockett Club Archives|url=http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll13/id/50/rec/1|access-date=2014-04-02|archive-date=2014-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407063435/http://cdm16013.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16013coll13/id/50/rec/1|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a Phillips trustee from 1905 to 1947 and served as president of the board from 1935 to 1945.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzGouSioyrUC&pg=PA4 |title=Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man |publisher=Scholarly Resources Inc. |location=[[Wilmington, Delaware]] |isbn=978-0842026314 |year=2001 |access-date=2014-02-06 |page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/Pages/shortlist.aspx |title=Phillips Academy - Notable Alumni: Short List |publisher=[[Phillips Academy]] |access-date=2014-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027205211/http://www.andover.edu/About/NotableAlumni/Pages/shortlist.aspx |archive-date=2016-10-27 }}</ref> He then attended [[Yale College]], where he was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He joined [[Skull and Bones]], a secret society that afforded many contacts for the rest of his life.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sean L. Malloy|title=Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan|url=https://archive.org/details/atomictragedyhen00mall|url-access=registration|year=2008|publisher=Cornell University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/atomictragedyhen00mall/page/14 14]–15|isbn=978-0801446542}}</ref> He graduated in 1888 and attended [[Harvard Law School]], where he graduated in 1890. He joined the prestigious [[Wall Street]] law firm of Root and Clark in 1891 and became a partner in 1893. [[Elihu Root]], a future Secretary of War and Secretary of State, became a major influence on and role model for Stimson.<ref>see Malloy, Ch. 1, "The Education of Henry L. Stimson"</ref>

Stimson developed a close relationship with [[Alfred Lee Loomis]] his first cousin twenty years his junior, and ''became the father that Loomis never had''; while Loomis became the son that Stimson could not have because he was sterile.<ref>{{cite book |last= Fine |first= Norman  |title= Blind Bombing: How Microwave Radar brought the Allies to D-Day and Victory in World War II  |accessdate=  |edition=  |orig-date=  |year= 2019   |publisher= Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press  |location= Nebraska |isbn=  978-1640-12279-6  |oclc= |page= 44 }}</ref>

In 1906, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed Stimson [[U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York]], where Stimson made a distinguished record prosecuting [[antitrust]] cases. He later served from 1937 to 1939 as president of the [[New York City Bar Association]], where a medal honoring service as a U.S. Attorney is still awarded in his honor.

Stimson was defeated as Republican candidate for [[Governor of New York]] in [[1910 New York state election|1910]].

He joined the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] at its inception<ref>Grose, Peter. [https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/book_pdf/Continuing_The_Inquiry.pdf ''Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996''.] New York: [[Council on Foreign Relations Press]], 1996. {{ISBN|0876091923}} / {{ISBN|978-0876091920}}.</ref> and was described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "the group's quintessential member".<ref>Lukas, J. Anthony. [https://archive.today/20170913055204/http://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/is-it-a-club-seminar-presidium-invisible-government-the-council-on-.html "Council on Foreign Relations — Is it a Club? Seminar? Presidium? 'Invisible Government'?"]''[[New York Times]]'', November 21, 1971, pp. SM34+. Archived from [https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/21/archives/is-it-a-club-seminar-presidium-invisible-government-the-council-on-.html the original.]</ref>