The Political Graveyard: Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic information:

Population: 8,581,477
Land area 18,815 square miles.
Capital: Santo Domingo

Neighboring areas:

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Dominican Republic
U.S. Consuls in Dominican Republic
U.S. Politicians who were born in Dominican Republic

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Dominican Republic

John M. Langston (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1883-85) John E. W. Thompson (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1885-89) Frederick Douglass (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1889-91) John S. Durham (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1891-93) Henry M. Smythe (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1893-97) William F. Powell (Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 1897-1904) Thomas C. Dawson (Minister to Santo Domingo 1904-07) Fenton R. McCreery (Minister to Santo Domingo 1907-09) Horace G. Knowles (Minister 1909-10) William W. Russell (Minister 1910-13) James M. Sullivan (Minister 1913-15) William W. Russell (Minister 1915-25) Evan E. Young (Minister 1925-29) Charles B. Curtis (Minister 1929-31) H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld (Minister 1931-37) R. Henry Norweb (Minister 1937-40) Robert M. Scotten (Minister 1940-42) Avra M. Warren (Minister 1942-43) Avra M. Warren (Ambassador 1943-44) Ellis O. Briggs (Ambassador 1944-45) Joseph F. McGurk (Ambassador 1945) George H. Butler (Ambassador 1946-48) Ralph H. Ackerman (Ambassador 1948-52) Phelps Phelps (Ambassador 1952-53) William T. Pheiffer (Ambassador 1953-57) Joseph S. Farland (Ambassador 1957-60) John Bartlow Martin (Ambassador 1962-63) W. Tapley Bennett, Jr. (Ambassador 1964-66) John Hugh Crimmins (Ambassador 1966-69) Francis E. Meloy, Jr. (Ambassador 1969-73) Robert Arnold Hurwitch (Ambassador 1973-78) Robert Lloyd Yost (Ambassador 1978-82) Robert Anderson (Ambassador 1982-85) Lowell C. Kilday (Ambassador 1985-88) Paul D. Taylor (Ambassador 1988-92) Robert Stephen Pastorino (Ambassador 1992-94) Donna Jean Hrinak (Ambassador 1994-97) Charles Manatt (Ambassador 1999-2001) Hans H. Hertell (Ambassador 2001-)

U.S. Consuls in Dominican Republic

(may be incomplete!)

Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo): Robert Newbegin (Consul 1943) Don V. Catlett (Vice Consul 1943) Harry Clinton Reed (Vice Consul 1943) Theodore S. Orme (Vice Consul 1943) George M. Graves (Consul 1943) Robert Janz (Consul 1943) Andrew B. Wardlow (Vice Consul 1944) Charles R. Burrows (Consul 1949) Ellis M. Goodwin (Consul 1949)
La Romana: Eugene J. Lieder (Consular Agent 1924-43) Harry Gabriel Godley (Consular Agent 1949)
Puerto Plata: A. Lithgow (Consular Agent 1862-66) Thomas Simpson (Consul 1897) Washington Lithgow (Vice Consul 1897) William H. Gale (Consul 1906-07) Ralph J. Totten (Consul 1908) Philip Holland (Consul 1910-11) Charles M. Hathaway, Jr. (Consul 1911-13) Frank Anderson Henry (Consul 1914-17) José Maria Esteva (Vice Consul 1914) Morris A. Peters (Vice Consul 1917-29) William A. Bickers (Consul 1919-29) Lawrence F. Cotie (Vice Consul 1932)
Sanchez: J. Enrique Leroux (Consular Agent 1924-32)
San Pedro de Macoris: Luis David Marin (Consular Agent 1924) John W. Tatem (Consular Agent 1926-32)
Santo Domingo: Daniel W. Carney (Commercial Agent 1837-46) Francis Harrison (Commercial Agent 1846-47) Jonathan Elliot (Commercial Agent 1847-60) William W. Richmond (Commercial Agent 1860-61) William G. W. Jaeger (Commercial Agent 1861-65) Paul T. Jones (Commercial Agent 1865-66) Campbell L. Maxwell (Consul 1892-98) Archibald H. Grimké (Consul 1894-98) Juan A. Read (Vice Consul 1897) Campbell L. Maxwell (Consul General 1898-1904) Thomas C. Dawson (Consul General 1904-07) Fenton R. McCreery (Consul General 1907-09) Frank Bohr (Vice Consul 1911-13) Charles B. Curtis (Consul General 1912-14) Charles H. Albrecht (Vice Consul 1913-15) William Walker Smith (Consul General 1914) Carl M. J. von Zielinski (Vice Consul 1917) Clement S. Edwards (Consul 1919) George A. Makinson (Vice Consul 1919-22) Charles B. Hosmer (Consul 1924) Raymond O. Richards (Vice Consul 1924) William B. Douglass, Jr. (Vice Consul 1926-29) James J. Murphy, Jr. (Consul 1926) William B. Lawton (Vice Consul 1929) Reed Paige Clark (Consul 1929-30) Hedley V. Cooke, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Walter S. Reineck (Consul 1932) Albion W. Johnson (Vice Consul 1932)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo (now Dominican Republic): Auguste Davezac 1780 Emile LaSére 1802

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