Hiss had served on the committee 1929-1930.) Wickersham did not return to government under Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was elected president of a private organization the Council on Foreign Relations, serving from 1933 to 1936. Personal life and death Wickersham married; his son was Cornelius Wendell Wickersham, a lawyer and a US Army Brigadier General. He lived much of his life in Cedarhurst, New York in the Town of Hempstead, now known as the Village of Lawrence. Wickersham died in New York City in 1936 and was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. Legacy Since 1996, the Friends of the Law Library of the Library of Congress have presented an annual award named for Wickersham. References Further reading German Jr, James Clifford. "Taft's attorney general: George W. Wickersham" (PhD dissertation, New York University, 1969). ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1969. 7016064. Bringhurst, Bruce Robert. "ANTITRUST AND THE OIL MONOPOLY: THE STANDARD OIL CASES, 1890-1911" (PhD dissertation, The Claremont Graduate University, 1976) ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1976. 7623920.. Primary sources George W. Wickersham. "Recent Interpretation of the Sherman Act" Michigan Law Review , Nov., 1911, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Nov., 1911), pp. 1-25 online External links Presidents of the Council on Foreign Relations 1858 births 1936 deaths United States Attorneys General University of Pennsylvania alumni Presidents of the New York City Bar Association Taft administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians New York (state) Republicans Pennsylvania Republicans Burials at Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey) People associated with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni