The Political Graveyard: Costa Rica

Costa Rica
Central America

Learn Spanish!

Costa Rica information:

Population: 3,773,057
Land area 19,730 square miles.
Capital: San Jose

See also: Central America

Neighboring areas:

North: Nicaragua
Northeast: Caribbean Sea
East: Panama
Southwest: North Pacific Ocean

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Costa Rica
U.S. Consuls in Costa Rica
U.S. Politicians who were born in Costa Rica

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Costa Rica

Solon Borland (Minister 1853-54) Mirabeau B. Lamar (Minister 1858-59) Alexander Dimitry (Minister 1859-61) Charles N. Riotte (Minister 1861-67) Albert G. Lawrence (Minister 1867-68) Jacob B. Blair (Minister 1868-73) George Williamson (Minister 1873-79) Cornelius A. Logan (Minister 1879-82) Henry C. Hall (Minister 1882-89) Lansing B. Mizner (Minister 1889-90) Romualdo Pacheco (Minister 1890-91) Richard C. Shannon (Minister 1891-93) Lewis Baker (Minister 1893-97) William L. Merry (Minister 1897-1911) Lewis Einstein (Minister 1911) Edward J. Hale (Minister 1913-17) Roy T. Davis (Minister 1922-30) Charles C. Eberhardt (Minister 1930-33) Leo R. Sack (Minister 1933-37) William H. Hornibrook (Minister 1937-41) Arthur Bliss Lane (Minister 1941-42) Robert M. Scotten (Minister 1942-43) Fay A. Des Portes (Ambassador 1943-44) Hallett C. Johnson (Ambassador 1944-47) Walter J. Donnelly (Ambassador 1947) Nathaniel P. Davis (Ambassador 1947-49) Joseph Flack (Ambassador 1949-50) Philip B. Fleming (Ambassador 1951-53) Robert C. Hill (Ambassador 1953-54) Robert F. Woodward (Ambassador 1954-58) Whiting Willauer (Ambassador 1958-61) Raymond Telles (Ambassador 1961-67) Clarence A. Boonstra (Ambassador 1967-69) Walter C. Ploeser (Ambassador 1970-72) Viron P. Vaky (Ambassador 1972-74) Terence A. Todman (Ambassador 1974-77) Marvin Weissman (Ambassador 1977-80) Francis J. McNeil (Ambassador 1980-83) Curtin Winsor, Jr. (Ambassador 1983-85) Lewis Arthur Tambs (Ambassador 1985-87) Deane R. Hinton (Ambassador 1987-90) Luis Guinot, Jr. (Ambassador 1991-93) Peter Jon de Vos (Ambassador 1994-97) Thomas J. Dodd (Ambassador 1997-) John J. Danilovich (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Costa Rica

(may be incomplete!)

Port Limon: Chester Donaldson (Consul 1906-17) Henry O. Easton (Vice Consul 1914) Albert B. Pullen (Vice Consul 1916-17) Stewart E. McMillin (Consul 1919-20) Edmund B. Montgomery (Vice Consul 1919) John J. Meily (Consul 1922-24) Thomas J. Maleady (Consul 1926) Thomas J. Meleady (Vice Consul 1929) Walter W. Hoffman (Vice Consul 1932) Henry T. Smith (Vice Consul 1943) Francis Joseph Riley (Consular Agent 1949)
Puntarenas: Max Diermissen (Consular Agent 1897) John Saxe (Consular Agent 1917) Henry T. Purdy (Consular Agent 1924) Atwood Collins II (Vice Consul 1943) John J. Hand (Consular Agent 1949)
San Jose: Harrison R. Williams (Consul 1897) Walter J. Field (Vice Consul 1897) Samuel T. Lee (Consul 1909-16) F. Percy Scott (Vice Consul 1914) Ulysses S. Fitzpatrick (Vice Consul 1916-17) Benjamin F. Chase (Consul 1917-20) Roderick W. Unckles (Vice Consul 1922-32) Henry S. Waterman (Consul 1922-24) Edward Caffery (Consul 1928-31) Henry T. Purdy (Vice Consul 1929-32) David J. D. Myers (Consul 1932) Leslie E. Reed (Consul General 1943) Livingston D. Watrous (Vice Consul 1943) Ben Zweig (Vice Consul 1943) Aubrey Lee Welch, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) S. Roger Tyler, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) H. Gordon Minnigerode (Vice Consul 1943) Andrew E. Donovan II (Consul 1949)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Costa Rica

No city given: Carmen Bermudez c.1944

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

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 192,291 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR.html
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
If you are searching for a specific individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.

Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — The site is currently hosted by Hostmonster, but we remain grateful for a decade-plus with our former web host, Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 24, 2009.

Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2009 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.