The Political Graveyard: Bolivia

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Bolivia
South America

Bolivia information:

Population: 8,300,463
Land area 424,164 square miles.
Capitals: La Paz and Sucre

Neighboring areas:

Northeast: Brazil
Southeast: Paraguay
South: Argentina
West: Chile; Peru

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Bolivia
U.S. Consuls in Bolivia
U.S. Politicians who died in Bolivia
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Bolivia

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Bolivia

John Appleton (Charge d'Affaires 1848-49) Alexander K. McClung (Charge d'Affaires 1849-51) Horace H. Miller (Charge d'Affaires 1852-54) John W. Dana (Charge d'Affaires 1854) John W. Dana (Minister 1854-59) John Cotton Smith (Minister 1859-61) David K. Cartter (Minister 1861-62) Allen A. Hall (Minister 1863-67) John W. Caldwell (Minister 1868-69) Leopold Markbreit (Minister 1869-73) John T. Croxton (Minister 1873-74) Robert M. Reynolds (Minister 1874-76) S. Newton Pettis (Minister 1878-79) Charles Adams (Minister 1880-82) George Maney (Minister 1882-83) Richard Gibbs (Minister 1883-85) William A. Seay (Minister 1885-87) Samuel S. Carlisle (Minister 1887-89) Thomas H. Anderson (Minister 1889-92) Frederic J. Grant (Minister 1892-93) Thomas Moonlight (Minister 1894-98) George H. Bridgman (Minister 1898-1902) William B. Sorsby (Minister 1902-08) James F. Stutesman (Minister 1908-10) Horace G. Knowles (Minister 1910-13) John D. O'Rear (Minister 1913-18) S. Abbot Maginnis (Minister 1919-21) Jesse S. Cottrell (Minister 1921-28) David E. Kaufman (Minister 1928-29) Edward F. Feely (Minister 1930-33) Fay A. Des Portes (Minister 1933-36) R. Henry Norweb (Minister 1936-37) Robert Granville Caldwell (Minister 1937-39) Douglas Jenkins (Minister 1939-41) Pierre de L. Boal (Ambassador 1942-44) Walter C. Thurston (Ambassador 1944-46) Joseph Flack (Ambassador 1946-49) Irving Florman (Ambassador 1949-51) Edward J. Sparks (Ambassador 1951-54) Gerald A. Drew (Ambassador 1954-57) Philip W. Bonsal (Ambassador 1957-59) Carl W. Strom (Ambassador 1959-61) Ben S. Stephansky (Ambassador 1961-63) Douglas Henderson (Ambassador 1963-68) Raul H. Castro (Ambassador 1968-69) Ernest V. Siracusa (Ambassador 1969-73) William Perry Stedman, Jr. (Ambassador 1973-77) Paul H. Boeker (Ambassador 1977-80) Marvin Weissman (Ambassador 1980) Edwin G. Corr (Ambassador 1981-85) Edward Morgan Rowell (Ambassador 1985-88) Robert S. Gelbard (Ambassador 1988-91) Charles R. Bowers (Ambassador 1991-94) Curtis W. Kamman (Ambassador 1994-97) Donna Jean Hrinak (Ambassador 1997-98) V. Manuel Rocha (Ambassador 2000)

U.S. Consuls in Bolivia

(may be incomplete!)

Cochabamba: John A. Embry (Consul 1943) J. Allard Gasque (Vice Consul 1943) Robert H. Fraser (Vice Consul 1949)
La Paz: Ross Hazeltine (Consul 1919) Nelson R. Park (Vice Consul 1919-22) W. Duval Brown (Consul 1920-21) Dayle C. McDonough (Consul 1924) William T. Pelbrough (Vice Consul 1924) Edwin Schoenrich (Vice Consul 1925-27) Rudolf E. Schoenfeld (Consul 1925-26) George H. Butler (Vice Consul 1927-29) Joseph F. McGurk (Consul 1927) Edward G. Trueblood (Vice Consul 1929) Thomas S. Horn (Consul 1929) Robert P. Joyce (Vice Consul 1932) Charles J. Allen (Consul 1932) John J. Muccio (Consul 1938) Carl Breuer (Vice Consul 1938) Andrew E. Donovan II (Vice Consul 1938) Walter T. Prendergast (Consul 1938) Oliver M. Marcy (Vice Consul 1942-43) Robert F. Woodward (Consul 1943) Jay Dixon Edwards (Vice Consul 1943) Bromley K. Smith (Vice Consul 1943) Walter E. Kneeland (Vice Consul 1943) J. Allard Gasque (Vice Consul 1943) William C. Dodge, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) Alvin E. Bandy (Vice Consul 1943) Delano McKelvey (Vice Consul 1943) Hector C. Adams, Jr. (Vice Consul 1944) James Espy (Consul 1949)

U.S. Politicians who died in Bolivia

No city given: John T. Croxton 1874
Cochabamba: Allen A. Hall 1867
La Paz: John D. O'Rear 1918

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

La Paz Unknown location

Unknown Location
La Paz, Bolivia

Politicians buried here:

John Davis O'Rear (1870-1918) — also known as John D. O'Rear — of Mexico, Audrain County, Mo. Born in Audrain County, Mo., March 21, 1870. Great-grandson of Josiah Bartlett; third cousin of Edward Clay O'Rear. U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1913-18, died in office 1918. Died of smallpox, in La Paz, Bolivia, July 14, 1918. Interment somewhere.
- See also Bartlett-O'Rear family of Kentucky and New Hampshire

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

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