The Political Graveyard: Guyana

Guyana
South America

Guyana information:

Population: 697,181
Land area 83,000 square miles.
Capital: Georgetown

Neighboring areas:

North: North Atlantic Ocean
East: Suriname
South: Brazil
West: Venezuela

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Guyana
U.S. Consuls in Guyana
U.S. Politicians who were born in Guyana
U.S. Politicians who died in Guyana

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Guyana

Delmar R. Carlson (Ambassador 1966-69) Spencer M. King (Ambassador 1969-74) Max V. Krebs (Ambassador 1974-76) John R. Burke (Ambassador 1977-79) George B. Roberts, Jr. (Ambassador 1979-81) Gerald E. Thomas (Ambassador 1981-83) Clint Arlen Lauderdale (Ambassador 1984-87) Theresa Anne Tull (Ambassador 1987-90) George Fleming Jones (Ambassador 1992-95) David L. Hobbs (Ambassador 1995-96) James F. Mack (Ambassador 1997-) Ronald D. Godard (Ambassador 2000)

U.S. Consuls in Guyana

(may be incomplete!)

Demerara (Georgetown): Louis S. Delaplaine, Jr. (Consul 1893)
Georgetown: William W. Wedemeyer (Consul 1905) Rea Hanna (Consul 1914) Lester W. Collins (Vice Consul 1914) George E. Chamberlin (Consul 1914-19) Willis G. Harry (Vice Consul 1919-22) John N. McCunn (Consul 1920) Chester W. Davis (Consul 1922) Gilson G. Blake, Jr. (Consul 1925-27) Clarence L. Gregory (Vice Consul 1926) Wilbert L. Bonney (Consul 1927) Paul Ernest Manheim (Vice Consul 1927) Harold R. Brown (Vice Consul 1929) John V. Swearingen, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Robert C. Bates (Vice Consul 1943) Carlton Hurst (Consul 1943)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Guyana

British Guiana (now Guyana): Godfrey Nurse c.1888
Demerara (now part of Guyana): James B. Hunt 1799

U.S. Politicians who died in Guyana

Port Kaituma: Leo J. Ryan 1978

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