The Political Graveyard: Greece

Greece

Greece information:

Population: 10,623,835
Land area 50,942 square miles.
Capital: Athens

Neighboring areas:

North: Macedonia; Bulgaria
East: Turkey; Aegean Sea
South: Mediterranean Sea
Southwest: Ionian Sea
Northwest: Albania

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Greece

Charles Keating Tuckerman (Minister 1868-71) John M. Francis (Minister 1871-73) John Meredith Read, Jr. (Minister 1873-77) John Meredith Read, Jr. (Charge d'Affaires 1877-79) Eugene Schuyler (Minister 1882-84) Walker Fearn (Minister 1885-89) A. Loudon Snowden (Minister 1889-92) Truxtun Beale (Minister 1892-93) Eben Alexander (Minister 1893-97) William W. Rockhill (Minister 1897-99) Arthur S. Hardy (Minister 1899-1901) Charles S. Francis (Minister 1901-02) John B. Jackson (Minister 1902-07) Richmond Pearson (Minister 1907-09) George H. Moses (Minister 1909-12) Jacob Gould Schurman (Minister 1912-13) George F. Williams (Minister 1913-14) Garrett Droppers (Minister 1914-20) Edward Capps (Minister 1920) Irwin Laughlin (Minister 1924-26) Robert P. Skinner (Minister 1926-32) Lincoln MacVeagh (Minister 1933-41) A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Minister 1941-42) A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Ambassador 1942-43) Alexander C. Kirk (Ambassador 1943) Lincoln MacVeagh (Ambassador 1943-47) Henry F. Grady (Ambassador 1948-50) John E. Peurifoy (Ambassador 1950-53) Cavendish W. Cannon (Ambassador 1953-56) George V. Allen (Ambassador 1956-57) James W. Riddleberger (Ambassador 1958-59) Ellis O. Briggs (Ambassador 1959-62) Henry R. Labouisse, Jr. (Ambassador 1962-65) Phillips Talbot (Ambassador 1965-69) Henry J. Tasca (Ambassador 1969-74) Jack B. Kubisch (Ambassador 1974-77) Robert J. McCloskey (Ambassador 1978-81) Monteagle Stearns (Ambassador 1981-85) Robert Vossler Keeley (Ambassador 1985-89) Michael G. Sotirhos (Ambassador 1989-) Thomas Michael Tolliver Niles (Ambassador 1993) R. Nicholas Burns (Ambassador 1997) Thomas Joel Miller (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Greece

(may be incomplete!)

Athens: John W. Mulligan (Consul 1846) Eugene Schuyler (Consul General 1882-84) Walker Fearn (Consul General 1885-89) A. Loudon Snowden (Consul General 1889-91) Eben Alexander (Consul General 1893-97) George Horton (Consul 1893-98) William W. Rockhill (Consul General 1897-98) Louis Nicolaides (Vice Consul 1897-1904) Daniel E. McGinley (Consul 1898-1904) George Horton (Consul 1905-06) George Horton (Consul General 1906-10) George M. Marino (Vice Consul 1906) William H. Gale (Consul General 1910-14) Bernard Melissinos (Vice Consul 1914) George P. Waller (Vice Consul 1916-19) Alexander W. Weddell (Consul General 1916-20) Constantine M. Corafa (Vice Consul 1916-29) William Perry George (Vice Consul 1918-22) John B. Madore (Vice Consul 1919) Thomas R. Ferguson (Vice Consul 1919-20) John G. Erhardt (Vice Consul 1920) John G. Erhardt (Consul 1920-24) Will L. Lowrie (Consul General 1920-22) Albert Robinson Archibald (Vice Consul 1922) William R. Morton (Vice Consul 1922-32) Sidney E. O'Donoghue (Vice Consul 1922) Arthur Garrels (Consul General 1924-26) Joseph T. Gilman (Vice Consul 1926) Edwin A. Plitt (Consul 1926-32) Leland B. Morris (Consul 1927-29) Henry A. W. Beck (Vice Consul 1927-29) Clayson W. Aldridge (Vice Consul 1929) Clayson W. Aldridge (Consul 1929) Leland B. Morris (Consul General 1932) Albert E. Clattenburg, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Edward P. Maffitt (Vice Consul 1932) Walworth Barbour (Vice Consul 1933-36) Burton Y. Berry (Consul 1936-38) Foy D. Kohler (Vice Consul 1938) Harold Shantz (Consul General 1938) Henry A. W. Beck (Consul 1938) Claude B. Chiperfield (Consul 1938) Andrew B. Foster (Vice Consul 1938) Walworth Barbour (Consul 1944-45) Claude G. Ross (Consul 1945-49) William Witman II (Consul 1945-48)
Kalamata: Sotiris Carapateas (Consular Agent 1916-32)
Mitylene (Mitilini): Apostolos P. Hadji Christofa (Consular Agent 1916)
Patras (Pátrai): Robert L. Jenkins (Consul 1897) Richard Hancock (Vice Consul 1897) Edward I. Nathan (Consul 1907-09) Arthur B. Cooke (Consul 1910-19) William Albert Birgfeld (Vice Consul 1916) Maynard B. Barnes (Vice Consul 1919-21) George K. Stiles (Consul 1920-22) Manson Gilbert (Vice Consul 1922) Adam Beaumont (Vice Consul 1923) James G. Finley (Vice Consul 1923-25) Thomas D. Davis (Consul 1926-29) W. Winthrop Burr (Vice Consul 1929) Leslie A. Davis (Consul 1930) Rufus H. Lane, Jr. (Consul 1932) C. Franklin Yeager, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932)
Salonika (Thessaloniki): B. W. Llewellyn (Consul 1835-42) P. H. Lazarro (Consular Agent 1897) Evan E. Young (Consul 1908-09) George Horton (Consul 1910-11) John E. Kehl (Consul 1914-17) John S. Armstrong, Jr. (Vice Consul 1914) Alfred R. Thomson (Vice Consul 1916) Leland B. Morris (Consul 1919-22) Quincy F. Roberts (Vice Consul 1919-20) Nels E. Anderson (Vice Consul 1919) John W. Henderson (Vice Consul 1922) Adam Beaumont (Vice Consul 1922-24) Herbert F. Pearson (Vice Consul 1926-29) Robert F. Fernald (Consul 1926) Charles J. Pisar (Consul 1927-32) James S. Moose, Jr. (Vice Consul 1929) Donal F. McGonigal (Vice Consul 1932) Paul Bowerman (Consul 1932-33) James H. Keeley, Jr. (Consul 1938) Glenn A. Abbey (Consul General 1949-51)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Greece

No city given: Lucas Miltiades Miller 1824
Alpohorion: George A. Andrews 1892
Arcadia: George Christopher 1907
Argos: S. G. W. Benjamin 1837
Athens: Arianna Huffington 1950
Kastrion, Arcadia: Philip J. Williams 1901
Samos: E. N. Karay 1905

Protestant Cemetery
Athens, Greece

Politicians buried here:

Thomas Russell Ferguson (1892-1920) — also known as Thomas R. Ferguson — of St. Louis, Mo. Born in Sweet Springs, Saline County, Mo., September 25, 1892. Son of Dr. Thomas E. Ferguson and Frances Lenoir (Russell) Ferguson. U.S. Vice Consul in Athens, 1919-20. Died in Athens, Greece, June 6, 1920. Interment at Protestant Cemetery.

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U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Greece

U.S. Consuls in Greece

U.S. Politicians who were born in Greece

U.S. Politicians who lived in Greece

U.S. Politicians who died in Greece

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