James N. Rosenberg

James N. Rosenberg (1874–1970) was an American lawyer, artist, humanitarian, and writer. In law, he is remembered for his handling of the collapsed issue empire of the so-called "Swedish Match King," Ivar Kreuger. In art, he is remembered for two types of pictures, on the one hand, realist landscapes of the Adirondack Mountains in which critics proverb a mighty feeling for birds and a refined rather than exuberant sensibility, and upon the other, dramatic scenes that, as one critic said, "recall the Wall Street wreck of 1929, the achievement of 'Ironism' in his indigenous Pittsburgh and the potential unease of 'atomism' in the nuclear age." As a humanist, he worked to protect freedom of speech, end the persecution of minority communities, aid refugees, and mitigate case among nations. In this work, he is remembered for leading a society of civic, religious, labor, racial, and business leaders whose single endeavor was the passage and subsequent ratification of the United Nations Genocide Convention.