William Nelson Cromwell

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William Nelson Cromwell (1854-1948) was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there by his mother, a Civil-War widow.

He worked as an accountant for the attorney Algernon Sydney Sullivan, who paid for his education at Columbia Law School and made him a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell in 1879.

One of his main pro bono activities was in the founding of "The Society of Friends of Roumania" in 1920 under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Marie of Roumania, grand-daughter of Queen Victoria of England. The New York-based Society under his tutelage promoted numerous exchanges between the two countries and published the distinguished "Roumania - A Quarterly Review".

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