The Political Graveyard: Iran

Iran

Iran information:

Population: 66,128,965
Land area 636,296 square miles.
Capital: Tehran

Neighboring areas:

North: Azerbaijan; Caspian Sea; Turkmenistan
East: Afghanistan; Pakistan
Southeast: Gulf of Oman
South: Persian Gulf
West: Iraq
Northwest: Turkey; Armenia

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Iran

S. G. W. Benjamin (Minister to Persia 1883-85) Frederick H. Winston (Minister to Persia 1885-86) E. Spencer Pratt (Minister to Persia 1886-91) Truxtun Beale (Minister to Persia 1891-92) Watson R. Sperry (Minister to Persia 1892-93) Alexander McDonald (Minister to Persia 1893-97) Arthur S. Hardy (Minister to Persia 1897-99) Herbert W. Bowen (Minister to Persia 1899-1901) Lloyd C. Griscom (Minister to Persia 1901-02) Richmond Pearson (Minister to Persia 1902-07) John B. Jackson (Minister to Persia 1907-09) Charles W. Russell (Minister to Persia 1909-14) John L. Caldwell (Minister to Persia 1914-21) Joseph Saul Kornfeld (Minister to Persia 1921-24) Hoffman Philip (Minister to Persia 1925-28) Charles C. Hart (Minister to Persia 1929-33) William H. Hornibrook (Minister to Persia 1933-36) Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (Minister 1939-44) Leland B. Morris (Ambassador 1944-45) Wallace Murray (Ambassador 1945-46) George V. Allen (Ambassador 1946-48) John C. Wiley (Ambassador 1948-50) Henry F. Grady (Ambassador 1950-51) Loy W. Henderson (Ambassador 1951-54) Selden Chapin (Ambassador 1955-58) Edward T. Wailes (Ambassador 1958-61) Julius C. Holmes (Ambassador 1961-65) Armin H. Meyer (Ambassador 1965-69) Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador 1969-72) Joseph S. Farland (Ambassador 1972-73) Richard Helms (Ambassador 1973-77) William H. Sullivan (Ambassador 1977-79)

U.S. Consuls in Iran

(may be incomplete!)

Tabriz: Gordon Paddock (Consul 1914-19) Augustin W. Ferrin (Consul 1926-28) William C. Burdett (Consul 1950-52)
Teheran (Tehran): Williams C. Fox (Vice Consul 1891-92) Alexander McDonald (Consul General 1893-97) Arthur S. Hardy (Consul General 1897-99) Ralph H. Bader (Vice Consul 1912-18) Craig W. Wadsworth (Consul General 1914) Ralph H. Baker (Vice Consul 1916) Ralph H. Bader (Consul 1918-20) Bernard Gotlieb (Consul 1921-24) Gordon Paddock (Consul 1922) George Gregg Fuller (Vice Consul 1924-25) Robert W. Imbrie (Vice Consul 1924) Karl de G. MacVitty (Consul 1925) Orsen N. Nielsen (Consul 1927-29) Augustin W. Ferrin (Consul 1928-30) Robert B. Streeper (Consul 1932) Raymond A. Hare (Vice Consul 1933) Raymond A. Hare (Consul 1935) C. Vaughn Ferguson, Jr. (Vice Consul 1941-46)

U.S. Politicians who died in Iran

Teheran, Persia (now Tehran, Iran): Robert W. Imbrie 1924
Tehran: A. Wallace Treat 1929

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