Alabama Claims - The Tribunal

The Tribunal

The tribunal was composed of representatives:

• Britain: Sir Alexander Cockburn
• U.S.: Charles Francis Adams with William Maxwell Evarts serving as counsel
• Italy: Federico Sclopis
• Switzerland: Jakob Stämpfli
• Brazil: Marcos Antônio de Araújo, 2nd Baron of Itajubá.

Negotiations had taken place in Suitland, businessman Samuel Taylor Suit's estate, and the tribunal session took place in a reception room of the Town Hall in Geneva. This is now named salle de l'Alabama.

The final award of $15,500,000 formed part of the Treaty of Washington and was paid out in 1872.