The Political Graveyard: Belgium

The Political
Graveyard

Belgium

Belgium information:

Population: 10,258,762
Land area 11,780 square miles.
Capital: Brussels

Neighboring areas:

North: Netherlands
East: Germany
Southeast: Luxembourg
South: France
Northwest: North Sea

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Belgium
U.S. Consuls in Belgium
U.S. Politicians who were born in Belgium
U.S. Politicians who lived in Belgium
U.S. Politicians who died in Belgium
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Belgium

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Belgium

Hugh Swinton Legaré (Charge d'Affaires 1832-36) Virgil Maxcy (Charge d'Affaires 1837-42) Henry W. Hilliard (Charge d'Affaires 1842-44) Thomas Green Clemson (Charge d'Affaires 1844-51) Richard H. Bayard (Charge d'Affaires 1851-53) John Jacob Seibels (Charge d'Affaires 1853-54) John Jacob Seibels (Minister 1854-56) Elisha Y. Fair (Minister 1858-61) Henry Shelton Sanford (Minister 1861-69) J. Russel Jones (Minister 1869-75) Ayres Phillips Merrill (Minister 1876-77) W. Cassius Goodloe (Minister 1878-80) James O. Putnam (Minister 1880-82) Nicholas Fish (Minister 1882-85) Lambert Tree (Minister 1885-88) John G. Parkhurst (Minister 1888-89) Edwin Holland Terrell (Minister 1889-93) James S. Ewing (Minister 1893-97) Bellamy Storer (Minister 1897-99) Lawrence Townsend (Minister 1899-1905) Henry L. Wilson (Minister 1905-09) Charles P. Bryan (Minister 1909-11) Larz Anderson (Minister 1911-12) Theodore Marburg (Minister 1912-14) Brand Whitlock (Minister 1914-19) Brand Whitlock (Ambassador 1919-21) Henry P. Fletcher (Ambassador 1922-24) William Phillips (Ambassador 1924-27) Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador 1927-33) Dave Hennen Morris (Ambassador 1933-37) Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador 1937-38) Joseph E. Davies (Ambassador 1938-39) John Cudahy (Ambassador 1940) A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Ambassador 1941-43) Charles Sawyer (Ambassador 1944-45) Alan G. Kirk (Ambassador 1946-49) Robert D. Murphy (Ambassador 1949-52) Myron Melvin Cowen (Ambassador 1952-53) Frederick M. Alger, Jr. (Ambassador 1953-57) John Clifford Folger (Ambassador 1957-59) William A. M. Burden (Ambassador 1959-61) Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador 1961-65) Ridgway B. Knight (Ambassador 1965-69) John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (Ambassador 1969-71) Robert Strausz-Hupé (Ambassador 1972-74) Leonard K. Firestone (Ambassador 1974-77) Anne Cox Chambers (Ambassador 1977-81) Charles H. Price II (Ambassador 1981-83) Geoffrey Swaebe (Ambassador 1983-88) Maynard Wayne Glitman (Ambassador 1988-91) Bruce S. Gelb (Ambassador 1991-93) Alan John Blinken (Ambassador 1993-98) Paul L. Cejas (Ambassador 1998-) Stephen Brauer (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Belgium

(may be incomplete!)

Antwerp: James Blake (Commercial Agent 1801-04) Isaac Cox Barnet (Consul 1802-03) Jacob Ridgway (Commercial Agent 1803-10) Samuel Hazard (Consul 1814-17) Joshua Clibborn (Consul 1817-18) David Parish (Consul 1818-19) Charles Barnet (Consul 1825-29) William Daniel Patterson (Consul 1829-36) Thomas H. Barker (Consul 1836-41) Samuel Haight (Consul 1842-44) Francis J. Grund (Consul 1844-46) William Henry Vesey (Consul 1846-53) Alois D. Gall (Consul 1853-59) A. W. Crawford (Consul 1861-66) James Riley Weaver (Consul 1874) Ernst Fuchs (Vice Consul 1874) George F. Lincoln (Consul 1897) Louis Hess (Vice & Deputy Consul 1897) Stainslaus H. Haine (Deputy Consul 1897) George F. Lincoln (Consul General 1898-1902) Stainslaus H. Haine (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1898-1904) Bradford Colt de Wolf (Deputy Consul General 1898) Harry Tuck Sherman (Deputy Consul General 1902-06) Augustus E. Ingram (Vice Consul 1903-04) Church Howe (Consul General 1904-06) Henry W. Diederich (Consul General 1906-17) Harry Tuck Sherman (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1907-14) Harry Tuck Sherman (Vice Consul 1916-32) Harry H. Morgan (Consul General 1918-19) George S. Messersmith (Consul 1919-24) H. Tobey Mooers (Vice Consul 1919) James P. Moffitt (Consul 1920-21) Joseph A. Marquis (Vice Consul 1921-22) Harold L. Smith (Vice Consul 1922) Clinton E. MacEachran (Consul 1922) Frank H. Baxter (Vice Consul 1922) Julian F. Harrington (Vice Consul 1924) Hugh S. Fullerton (Consul 1924) James E. McKenna (Consul 1925-26) David McK. Key (Vice Consul 1926) George S. Messersmith (Consul General 1926-27) Dwight W. Fisher (Vice Consul 1926-38) Edward E. Silvers (Consul 1927-29) Marion Letcher (Consul General 1929-32) Alexander P. Cruger (Vice Consul 1929) Francis H. Styles (Consul 1929) Alexander P. Cruger (Consul 1931) Walter S. Reineck (Consul 1931) William H. Beach (Consul 1932-38) Robert G. McGregor, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) John C. Wiley (Consul General 1935-37) Homer M. Byington (Consul General 1935) Louis Sussdorff, Jr. (Consul General 1938) Gerald A. Mokma (Consul 1938) Arnold van Benschoten (Vice Consul 1938) Hervé J. L'Heureux (Consul 1939-41) George Gregg Fuller (Consul 1944-45) George Carnahan (Vice Consul 1945) John R. Jacobs (Vice Consul 1945) John H. Lord (Consul 1945) Austin R. Preston, Jr. (Consul General 1947) Paul P. Steintorf (Consul General 1949)
Brussels: George Sauer (Consul 1863-66) John Wilson (Consul 1874) George W. Roosevelt (Consul 1889-1902) Gregory Phelan (Vice & Deputy Consul 1897-98) George W. Roosevelt (Consul General 1906) Ethelbert Watts (Consul General 1907-17) Charles Roy Nasmith (Vice Consul 1911-17) Carl C. Lumry (Vice Consul 1919) H. Tobey Mooers (Vice Consul 1919) Charles W. Drew, Jr. (Vice Consul 1919) J. Preston Doughten (Consul 1919) Harry H. Morgan (Consul General 1919-22) Edward Schuler (Vice Consul 1921-22) Almon F. Rockwell (Vice Consul 1922) Herbert O. Williams (Consul 1924) H. Armistead Smith (Vice Consul 1924) William C. Burdett (Consul 1925-30) Manson Gilbert (Vice Consul 1927-38) Walter H. Sholes (Consul 1931-32) F. Manson Gilbert (Vice Consul 1931-32) George P. Waller (Consul 1932) Charles C. Broy (Consul 1938) J. Stanford Edwards (Vice Consul 1944)
Ghent (Gent): Marinus J. Levison (Consul 1861-71) Samuel Spachman (Consul 1880) John Ball Osborne (Consul 1889-94) Julius A. Van Hee (Vice Consul 1897-98) Henry C. Morris (Consul 1897-98) Julius A. Van Hee (Vice Consul 1900-14) Frank R. Mowrer (Consul 1906) Henry Abert Johnson (Consul 1914-17) Charles Roy Nasmith (Consul 1919-22) Julius A. Van Hee (Vice Consul 1919) Walter S. Ruffner (Vice Consul 1921) Lester S. Dame (Vice Consul 1922) Clinton E. MacEachran (Consul 1924-26) Donald E. T. Sherman (Vice Consul 1926-29) George N. Ifft (Consul 1926-29) Courtland Christiani (Vice Consul 1931-32) W. M. Parker Mitchell (Consul 1931-32)
Liège: Henry W. Gilbert (Consul 1897) Alfred A. Winslow (Consul 1898-1902) James C. McNally (Consul 1906) Henry Abert Johnson (Consul 1907-10) Victor H. Duras (Vice Consul 1914) Alexander Heingartner (Consul 1914-17) George M. Hanson (Consul 1919-22) Curtis T. Everett (Vice Consul 1921)
Ostend: Francis L. Taney (Consul 1801-03) Henry Wilson (Consul 1803-16) Emanuel Wambersie (Consul 1816-19) Louis Mark (Consul 1822-43) John Hubert Serruys (Consular Agent 1842-50) Augustus J. Van Iseghem (Consular Agent 1850-58)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Belgium

No city given: David Cowan 1825 Jean Zinzen 1861 Jasper DeDobbeleer 1883
Brussels: Victor Vifquain 1836

U.S. Politicians who lived in Belgium

Brussels: Liliana Geldmacher
Hoves: Maurine Coots
Overijse: Wini Cox

U.S. Politicians who died in Belgium

Antwerp: William Daniel Patterson 1836 Harry Tuck Sherman ?
Brussels: Darwin Abel Finney 1868 George H. Pendleton 1889 John E. Warren 1896 George W. Roosevelt 1907 Matilda R. Wilson 1967

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Belgium

Unknown location
Antwerp Unknown location

Unknown Location
Belgium

Politicians buried here:

Alexander Heingartner (d. 1917) — Born in Canton, Stark County, Ohio. Father of Robert Wayne Heingartner. U.S. Consul in Catania, 1898; Liège, 1914-17. Died March 30, 1917. Interment somewhere.

Unknown Location
Antwerp, Belgium

Politicians buried here:

Harry Tuck Sherman — of Maine. Born in Maine. U.S. Deputy Consul General in Antwerp, 1902-06; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Antwerp, 1907-14; U.S. Vice Consul in Antwerp, 1916-32. Died in Antwerp, Belgium. Interment somewhere.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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