The Political Graveyard: Guatemala

Guatemala
Central America

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Guatemala information:

Population: 12,974,361
Land area 42,043 square miles.
Capital: Guatemala

See also: Central America; Central America

Neighboring areas:

North: Campeche
East: Belize; Caribbean Sea; Honduras
Southeast: El Salvador
South: North Pacific Ocean
West: Chiapas
Northwest: Tabasco

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Guatemala
U.S. Consuls in Guatemala
U.S. Politicians who died in Guatemala

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Guatemala

Elijah Hise (Charge d'Affaires to Guatamala 1848-49) John L. Marling (Minister to Guatamala 1854-56) Beverly L. Clarke (Minister to Guatamala 1858-60) Elisha O. Crosby (Minister to Guatamala 1861-64) Fitz Henry Warren (Minister to Guatamala 1865-69) Silas A. Hudson (Minister to Guatamala 1869-72) George Williamson (Minister to Guatamala 1873-79) Cornelius A. Logan (Minister to Guatamala 1879-82) Henry C. Hall (Minister to Guatamala 1882-89) Lansing B. Mizner (Minister to Guatamala 1889-90) Romualdo Pacheco (Minister to Guatamala 1890-93) Pierce M. B. Young (Minister to Guatamala 1893-96) Macgrane Coxe (Minister to Guatamala 1896-97) W. Godfrey Hunter (Minister to Guatamala 1897-1903) Leslie Combs (Minister to Guatamala 1903-07) Joseph W. J. Lee (Minister to Guatamala 1907) William Heimké (Minister to Guatamala 1908-09) William F. Sands (Minister to Guatamala 1909-10) R. S. Reynolds Hitt (Minister to Guatamala 1910-13) William Hayne Leavell (Minister to Guatamala 1913-18) Benton McMillin (Minister to Guatamala 1919-21) Arthur H. Geissler (Minister to Guatamala 1922-30) Sheldon Whitehouse (Minister to Guatamala 1930-33) Matthew E. Hanna (Minister to Guatamala 1933-36) Fay A. Des Portes (Minister to Guatamala 1936-43) Boaz Long (Ambassador to Guatamala 1943-45) Edwin Jackson Kyle (Ambassador to Guatamala 1945-48) Richard C. Patterson, Jr. (Ambassador to Guatamala 1948-50) Rudolf E. Schoenfeld (Ambassador to Guatamala 1951-53) John E. Peurifoy (Ambassador to Guatamala 1953-54) Norman Armour (Ambassador to Guatamala 1954-55) Edward J. Sparks (Ambassador to Guatamala 1955-58) Lester D. Mallory (Ambassador to Guatamala 1958-59) John J. Muccio (Ambassador to Guatamala 1959-61) John O. Bell (Ambassador to Guatamala 1961-65) John Gordon Mein (Ambassador to Guatamala 1965-68) Nathaniel Davis (Ambassador to Guatamala 1968-71) William G. Bowdler (Ambassador to Guatamala 1971-73) Francis E. Meloy, Jr. (Ambassador to Guatamala 1973-76) Davis E. Boster (Ambassador to Guatamala 1976-79) Frank V. Ortiz (Ambassador to Guatamala 1979-80) Frederic L. Chapin (Ambassador to Guatamala 1981-84) Alberto Martinez Piedra (Ambassador to Guatamala 1984-87) James H. Michel (Ambassador to Guatamala 1987-89) Thomas F. Stroock (Ambassador to Guatamala 1989-92) Marilyn McAfee (Ambassador to Guatamala 1993-96) Donald Planty (Ambassador to Guatamala 1996-) Prudence Bushnell (Ambassador to Guatamala 1999)

U.S. Consuls in Guatemala

(may be incomplete!)

Guatemala: D. Lynch Pringle (Consul General 1897) Alfred A. Winslow (Consul General 1902-06) George A. Bucklin, Jr. (Consul General 1910-14) William Owen (Vice Consul 1914) Stuart K. Lupton (Consul General 1914-16) Samuel C. Reat (Consul 1917) William E. Alger (Consul 1917) Henry S. Waterman (Vice Consul 1919) Ezra M. Lawton (Consul 1919-20) Henry T. Dwyer (Vice Consul 1922) Arthur C. Frost (Consul 1922) Nelson R. Park (Vice Consul 1922) Philip Holland (Consul 1923-24) Augustus Ostertag (Vice Consul 1924) Philip Holland (Consul General 1924-27) Burdette B. Bliss (Vice Consul 1926-29) G. Otis Ogden (Vice Consul 1926) H. Eric Trammell (Vice Consul 1927-29) George K. Donald (Consul General 1928-32) William E. Flournoy, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Chester Kimray (Vice Consul 1932) Rodney Deane Wells (Vice Consul 1932) Walter F. Boyle (Consul General 1938-41) Roswell C. Beverstock (Vice Consul 1945) James H. Webb (Vice Consul 1945)
Livingston: Edward Reed (Consular Agent 1916) Edward Reed (Vice Consul 1919)
Puerto Barrios: Joaquin Hecht (Consular Agent 1916) Wallace C. Hutchinson (Vice Consul 1919-29) Patrick J. Powers (Vice Consul 1932)

U.S. Politicians who died in Guatemala

No city given: Beverly L. Clarke 1860 John Gordon Mein 1968
Guatemala: William E. Alger 1917

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