The Political Graveyard: Japan

The Political
Graveyard

Japan

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Japan information:

Population: 126,771,662
Land area 145,883 square miles.
Capital: Tokyo

Neighboring areas:

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Japan

Townsend Harris (Minister 1859) Robert H. Pruyn (Minister 1861) Robert B. Van Valkenburgh (Minister 1866-69) Charles E. De Long (Minister 1869) John Armor Bingham (Minister 1873) Richard B. Hubbard (Minister 1885) John Franklin Swift (Minister 1889-91) Frank L. Coombs (Minister 1892-93) Edwin Dun (Minister 1893-97) Alfred E. Buck (Minister 1897) Lloyd C. Griscom (Minister 1902-06) Luke E. Wright (Ambassador 1906-07) Thomas J. O'Brien (Ambassador 1907-11) Charles P. Bryan (Ambassador 1911-12) Larz Anderson (Ambassador 1912-13) George W. Guthrie (Ambassador 1913-17) Roland S. Morris (Ambassador 1917-20) Charles B. Warren (Ambassador 1921-22) Cyrus E. Woods (Ambassador 1923-24) Edgar A. Bancroft (Ambassador 1924-25) Charles MacVeagh (Ambassador 1925-29) William Richards Castle (Ambassador 1929-30) W. Cameron Forbes (Ambassador 1930) Joseph C. Grew (Ambassador 1932-38) Robert D. Murphy (Ambassador 1952) John M. Allison (Ambassador 1953) Douglas MacArthur II (Ambassador 1957-61) Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (Ambassador 1961-66) U. Alexis Johnson (Ambassador 1966-69) Armin H. Meyer (Ambassador 1969-72) Robert Stephen Ingersoll (Ambassador 1972) James Day Hodgson (Ambassador 1974) Mike Mansfield (Ambassador 1977-88) Michael Armacost (Ambassador 1989) Walter F. Mondale (Ambassador 1993) Thomas S. Foley (Ambassador 1997-) Howard H. Baker (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Japan

(may be incomplete!)

Kanagawa: John F. Gowey (Consul General 1897) John McLean (Vice Consul 1897)
Kobe: Roger S. Greene (Vice Consul 1905) David F. Wilber (Consul General 1909-10) George N. West (Consul 1914-16) Eugene H. Dooman (Vice Consul 1916-17) Robert Frazer, Jr. (Consul 1916-19) Erle R. Dickover (Vice Consul 1917) John K. Caldwell (Consul 1920) Lester L. Schnare (Consul 1920-21) Erle R. Dickover (Consul 1921-32) Lester L. Schnare (Consul 1921-22) George P. Waller (Vice Consul 1922) Harold J. Newton (Vice Consul 1922) E. Clark Creager (Vice Consul 1922) Laurence E. Salisbury (Vice Consul 1922-24) Edward B. Thomas (Consul 1924-26) Laurence E. Salisbury (Consul 1925-26) William F. Nason (Vice Consul 1926) Whitney Young (Vice Consul 1926-29) George J. Haering (Vice Consul 1926-29) Bruce Lancaster (Vice Consul 1929-32) Otis W. Rhoades (Vice Consul 1929-38) Sheridan Talbott (Consul 1929) Lucius W. Knowles (Vice Consul 1930) Monroe B. Hall (Vice Consul 1932) Frank A. Schuler, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Howard Donovan (Consul 1932) William F. Nason (Consul 1932) Walter P. McConaughy, Jr. (Consul 1938) William E. Yuni (Vice Consul 1938) William C. Affeld, Jr. (Vice Consul 1938) David K. Caldwell (Vice Consul 1938) Winthrop R. Scott (Consul 1938) Frederick J. Mann (Vice Consul 1941)
Nagasaki: W. H. Abercrombie (Consul 1897) W. H. Devine (Vice Consul 1897) Charles B. Harris (Consul 1897-98) Fred D. Fisher (Vice Consul 1901-04) Roger S. Greene (Vice Consul 1904-05) Carl F. Deichman (Consul 1909-14) E. Carleton Baker (Consul 1914-16) Edwin L. Neville (Consul 1916-17) Henry B. Hitchcock (Vice Consul 1917) Irvin C. Correll (Vice Consul 1922) Henry B. Hitchcock (Consul 1924-32) Laurence E. Salisbury (Vice Consul 1924-25) Laurence E. Salisbury (Consul 1925) Glen W. Bruner (Vice Consul 1932) Glenn W. Brunner (Vice Consul 1937) Arthur F. Tower (Consul 1938) Ralph Cory (Vice Consul 1938)
Nagoya: Harry F. Hawley (Consul 1919-25) Harvey T. Goodier (Consul 1926) Austin R. Preston, Jr. (Vice Consul 1929-31) J. Holbrook Chapman (Consul 1932) Charles H. Stephan (Vice Consul 1938)
Osaka: George A. Makinson (Consul General 1938) Kenneth C. Krentz (Consul 1938) Ralph W. Blake (Vice Consul 1938) Max W. Schmidt (Vice Consul 1938) John K. Emmerson (Vice Consul 1938) George Lockwood Jorgensen (Vice Consul 1938) Frederick J. Mann (Vice Consul 1941)
Tokyo: Harry F. Hawley (Consul 1917-18) Charles R. Cameron (Consul 1923-25) Joseph W. Ballantine (Consul 1923-29) Austin R. Preston, Jr. (Vice Consul 1924-27) Nathaniel B. Stewart (Consul General 1924) Edwin L. Neville (Consul General 1925-27) L. Walters Harland (Vice Consul 1926) H. Merrell Benninghoff (Vice Consul 1927-29) Graham H. Kemper (Consul 1928-29) Charles L. De Vault (Consul 1929) Kennett F. Potter (Vice Consul 1929) Charles S. Reed II (Vice Consul 1929) Leo D. Sturgeon (Consul 1929-32) Arthur Garrels (Consul General 1930-32) Charles A. Hutchinson (Vice Consul 1932) Cabot Coville (Consul 1932) W. Garland Richardson (Vice Consul 1938) Stanley G. Slavens (Consul 1938) Charles R. Cameron (Consul General 1938) Ralph Cory (Vice Consul 1938) Thomas A. Hickok (Consul 1938-39) Donald W. Lamm (Vice Consul 1939-42) W. Leonard Parker (Vice Consul 1939) David A. Thomason (Vice Consul 1939) William Leonhart (Consul 1951-54)
Yokkaichi: Willard de L. Kingsbury (Consular Agent 1916) Harry F. Hawley (Consul 1918-19)
Yokohama: Edward C. Bellows (Consul General 1900-05) Henry B. Miller (Consul General 1906) John K. Caldwell (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1909) Roger C. Tredwell (Vice Consul 1910-11) Hasell H. Dick (Deputy Consul 1911-12) Hasell H. Dick (Vice Consul 1912-15) George H. Scidmore (Consul General 1914-22) Joseph W. Ballantine (Vice Consul 1914) Henry B. Hitchcock (Vice Consul 1916) Max D. Kirjassoff (Vice Consul 1916) William R. Langdon (Vice Consul 1916-17) Paul E. Jenks (Vice Consul 1917-22) Harold C. Huggins (Vice Consul 1917) Lester L. Schnare (Vice Consul 1918) Lester L. Schnare (Consul 1920) Harman L. Broomall (Vice Consul 1921-22) Lester L. Schnare (Consul 1921) Harvey T. Goodier (Vice Consul 1922) Edward Russell Kellogg (Vice Consul 1922) Sam J. Wardell (Vice Consul 1922) William G. McCarthy (Vice Consul 1922) Max D. Kirjassoff (Consul 1922) Graham H. Kemper (Consul 1923-28) Leonard N. Green (Vice Consul 1924-26) Walter S. Ruffner (Vice Consul 1924) Russell B. Jordan (Vice Consul 1926) William T. Turner (Vice Consul 1926-29) George E. Aurell (Vice Consul 1928-29) Leonard N. Green (Consul 1929) Graham H. Kemper (Consul 1929-30) Charles L. De Vault (Consul 1932) Whitney Young (Consul 1932) H. Merrell Benninghoff (Vice Consul 1932) Edmund J. Dorsz (Vice Consul 1932) Hayward G. Hill (Vice Consul 1932) Richard F. Boyce (Consul 1933-38) Ivan B. White (Vice Consul 1938) Beppo R. Johansen (Vice Consul 1938) Jule L. Goetzman (Vice Consul 1939-41) U. Alexis Johnson (Consul 1947) U. Alexis Johnson (Consul General 1949) Gordon Robert Beyer (Consul General 1961-64)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Japan

No city given: Edwin Oldfather Reischauer 1910
Camp Zama: Felix Peres Camacho 1957
Fukushima: Mazie K. Hirono 1947
Kobe: George E. Aurell 1905
Tachikawa: Diana L. DeGette 1957
Tokyo: Elizabeth P. Farrington 1898 James M. Landis 1899 David McK. Key 1900

U.S. Politicians who lived in Japan

Nagoya: David Fleishman
Tokyo: Edwin Dun - Greg Irwin - Teresa MacMillan - Brent O'Leary - Lauren McLernan Shannon
Yokohama: Edwin Dun - John McCreery - Ruth McCreery

U.S. Politicians who died in Japan

No city given: John Franklin Swift 1891
Karuizawa: Edgar A. Bancroft 1925
Nagasaki: Orlando H. Baker 1913
Tokyo: Edwin Dun 1931
Near Tokyo: Alfred E. Buck 1902

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

Tokyo Aoyama Cemetery

Aoyama Cemetery
Tokyo, Japan

Politicians buried here:

Edwin Dun (1848-1931) — of Yokohama, Japan; Tokyo, Japan. Born in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, July 19, 1848. Nephew of Allen Granberry Thurman. U.S. Minister to Japan, 1893-97; director and branch manager, International Oil Co., Ltd. Died in Tokyo, Japan, May 15, 1931. Interment at Aoyama Cemetery.
- See also McCormick-Thurman-Dun family of Ohio

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