The Political Graveyard: Denmark

The Political
Graveyard

Denmark

Denmark information:

Population: 5,352,815
Land area 16,639 square miles.
Capital: Copenhagen

See also: Greenland

Neighboring areas:

Northeast: Kattegat; Sweden
East: Baltic Sea
South: Germany
West: North Sea
Northwest: Skagerrak

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Denmark

Henry Wheaton (Charge d'Affaires 1827-35) Jonathan F. Woodside (Charge d'Affaires 1835-41) Isaac Rand Jackson (Charge d'Affaires 1841-42) William W. Irwin (Charge d'Affaires 1843-47) Robert P. Flenniken (Charge d'Affaires 1847-49) Walter Forward (Charge d'Affaires 1849-51) Miller Grieve (Charge d'Affaires 1852-53) Henry Bedinger (Charge d'Affaires 1853-54) Henry Bedinger (Minister 1854-58) James M. Buchanan (Minister 1858-61) Bradford R. Wood (Minister 1861-65) George H. Yeaman (Minister 1865-70) Michael John Cramer (Minister 1870-76) Michael John Cramer (Charge d'Affaires 1876-81) Charles Payson (Charge d'Affaires 1881-82) James Pyle Wickersham (Charge d'Affaires 1882) James Pyle Wickersham (Minister 1882) Wickham Hoffman (Minister 1883-85) Rasmus B. Anderson (Minister 1885-89) Clark E. Carr (Minister 1889-93) John Ewing Risley (Minister 1893-97) Lauritz S. Swenson (Minister 1897-1905) Thomas J. O'Brien (Minister 1905-07) Maurice F. Egan (Minister 1907-17) Norman Hapgood (Minister 1919) Joseph C. Grew (Minister 1920-21) John D. Prince (Minister 1921-26) H. Percival Dodge (Minister 1926-30) Ralph Harman Booth (Minister 1930-31) Frederick W. B. Coleman (Minister 1931-33) Ruth Bryan Owen (Minister 1933-36) Alvin Mansfield Owsley (Minister 1937-39) Ray Atherton (Minister 1939-40) Monnett B. Davis (Minister 1945-46) Josiah Marvel, Jr. (Minister 1946-47) Josiah Marvel, Jr. (Ambassador 1947-49) Eugenie Anderson (Ambassador 1949-53) Robert D. Coe (Ambassador 1953-57) Val Peterson (Ambassador 1957-61) William McCormick Blair, Jr. (Ambassador 1961-64) Katharine E. White (Ambassador 1964-68) Angier Biddle Duke (Ambassador 1968-69) Guilford Dudley, Jr. (Ambassador 1969-71) Fred Jesse Russell (Ambassador 1971-72) Philip K. Crowe (Ambassador 1973-75) John Gunther Dean (Ambassador 1975-78) Warren Demian Manshel (Ambassador 1978-81) John L. Loeb, Jr. (Ambassador 1981-83) Terence A. Todman (Ambassador 1983-89) Keith Lapham Brown (Ambassador 1989-92) Richard Stone (Ambassador 1992-93) Edward Elliott Elson (Ambassador 1993-) Dick Swett (Ambassador 1998-99) Stuart A. Bernstein (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Denmark

(may be incomplete!)

Aarhus (Århus): John E. Kehl (Consul 1919-20)
Copenhagen: Henry B. Ryder (Consul 1874) Olof Hansen (Vice Consul 1874-97) Robert J. Kirk (Consul 1897) Albert H. Michelson (Vice Consul 1906) Edward D. Winslow (Consul General 1914-17) Axel Permin (Vice Consul 1914-17) Baylor L. Agerton (Consul 1917-19) Romeyn Wormuth (Consul 1919-21) Erland Gjessing (Vice Consul 1919-32) Joseph G. Groeninger (Vice Consul 1919-20) Emil Sauer (Consul 1919) Maurice P. Dunlap (Consul 1919-20) William H. Gale (Consul General 1919-20) Henry C. A. Damm (Consul 1919-20) William George Roll (Vice Consul 1921) Julius C. Jensen (Vice Consul 1921-26) Marion Letcher (Consul General 1921-26) Howard F. Withey (Consul 1924) William H. T. Mackie (Vice Consul 1926-29) Ellis A. Johnson (Vice Consul 1926-29) North Winship (Consul General 1928-31) Carl Birkeland (Vice Consul 1929) Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (Consul General 1932) Edward M. Groth (Consul 1932) J. Stanford Edwards (Vice Consul 1932) Fred K. Salter (Vice Consul 1932) R. Borden Reams (Consul 1937-40)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Denmark

No city given: Jacob Johnson 1847 Christian Christenson 1858 Niels Juul 1859 John A. Pilgard c.1866 Hjalmar Petersen 1890 Chris Poulson 1904
Aalborg: Charles W. Woodman 1844
Bornholm: Carl C. Hansen 1863
Near Hadersleben: Yorgen Jesperson 1878
Horsens: Charles G. Binderup 1873
Jedsted: George N. Culmback 1888
North Albid: Ingebert J. Thomsen 1873
Near Thisted: Andrew Nicholas Petersen 1870

U.S. Politicians who died in Denmark

No city given: Isaac Rand Jackson 1842
Copenhagen: Ruth Bryan Owen 1954

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

Copenhagen Ordrup Cemetery

Ordrup Cemetery
Copenhagen, Denmark

Politicians buried here:

Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) — also known as Ruth Bryan; Mrs. Borge Rohde — of Miami, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., October 2, 1885. Granddaughter of Silas Lillard Bryan; daughter of William Jennings Bryan; niece of Charles Wayland Bryan; mother of Helen Rudd Brown. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Florida 4th District, 1929-33; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1933-36. Female. first woman to be elected to Congress from the South; inducted 1992 into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame. Died in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 26, 1954. Cremated; ashes interred at Ordrup Cemetery.
- See also Bryan family of Illinois
- See also: congressional biography; NNDB dossier.

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