Texas-born "Colonel" House (the title conferred 1892 by James Stephen Hogg in gratitude for House's spin-doctor work). Self-financed via father's cotton-plantation sale; spent 1892-1906 organizing successful Democratic gubernatorial campaigns for Charles Allen Culberson (1896), Joseph D. Sayers (1899), and S.W.T. Lanham (1903) — all three documented members of Albert Pike's Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. 21 of 25 Texas governors and 3 of 4 Republic of Texas presidents were lodge brothers. The "behind-the-scenes wirepuller in the second row" mode House operated in throughout his career was rehearsed in 1890s Texas.
Met Woodrow Wilson November 1911 — "love at first sight," Wilson afterwards said he had had "the impression of having always known the native Texan." The 1912-1919 House-Wilson partnership is the operational spine of the entire Wilson administration. House was an active member of the American Society for Psychical Research from 1901; pursued telepathic thought transference and communication with the dead. Wrote Philip Dru — Administrator: A Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 anonymously in 1912 — utopian-political program presenting House's actual policy vision (managed-democracy plus Anglo-American alliance plus Russian redemption). Wilson called him "my second personality. He is my independent self. His and my thoughts are one." House's own self- description: "I was like a disembodied spirit seeking a corporeal form. I found my opportunity in Wilson." (Claims WiU-22-001 through WiU-22-009.)
era; wrote his 4-volume FDR from 1917; both the British ambassador (Spring-Rice) and the German ambassador (Bernstorff) worked through House rather than through the regular diplomatic channels. After the 1919 Wilson-House rupture (Wilson believed he had seen through House's "habitual hypocrisy and calculated mendacity"), House continued as a major player in Democratic Party politics through the William Wiseman cofounding — House was the operational hub of all of these. He shared a New York building with British MI6 station chief CFR + RIIA secretary); the 14 Points draft (presented to Wilson Jan 5 1918 — "By 12:30 p.m. we had remade the entire map of the world according to our representations"); the Versailles Treaty participation; the post-Versailles Walter LippmannThe Federal Reserve Act 1913 (House's framework — see Jekyll Island 1910 cabal); the Inquiry 1917-1919 (House-led, his brother-in-law Sidney Mezes director, Intimate Papers with Charles Seymour 1928 (Yale). Died March 28, 1938. (Claims WiU-22-001 through WiU-22-009; SUT-WSRH-001.)