Arnold Margolin
Arnold Margolin | |
|---|---|
| Арнольд Марголін | |
| Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom | |
| In office 1919–1920 | |
| President | Symon Petliura |
| Preceded by | Mykola Stakhovsky |
| Succeeded by | Jaroslav Olesnitsky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 16 [O.S. November 4] 1877 Kyiv |
| Died | October 29, 1956 (aged 78) Washington DC |
| Alma mater | Kyiv University |
Arnold Davydovych Margolin (Ukrainian: Арнольд Давидович Марґолін) (born: November 16 [O.S. November 4] 1877, Kyiv – died October 29, 1956, Washington DC) – was a Ukrainian diplomat, lawyer, active participant in Ukrainian and Jewish community and political affairs; attorney who became world-famous as the defense counsel for Mendel Beilis in the notorious Jewish blood libel trial in Kyiv from 1911 to 1913. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Ukraine, Undersecretary of State of Ukraine and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference between 1918 and 1919.