The Political Graveyard: Mexico

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Mexico information:

Population: 97,483,412
Land area 761,605 square miles.
Capital: Mexico City (Ciudad de México)

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Mexico
U.S. Politicians who lived in Mexico
U.S. Politicians who died in Mexico
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of U.S. Politicians in Mexico

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Mexico

William Shaler (Special Diplomatic Agent 1810-12) John H. Robinson (Special Diplomatic Agent 1812-14) Joel Roberts Poinsett (Minister 1825-29) Anthony Butler (Special Diplomatic Agent 1829) Anthony Butler (Charge d'Affaires 1829-35) William A. Slacum (Special Diplomatic Agent 1835-36) Powhatan Ellis (Charge d'Affaires 1836) Robert Greenhow (Special Diplomatic Agent 1837) Powhatan Ellis (Minister 1839-42) Henry E. Lawrence (Special Diplomatic Agent 1842) Waddy Thompson, Jr. (Minister 1842-44) Moses Y. Beach (Special Diplomatic Agent 1843) Gilbert L. Thompson (Special Diplomatic Agent 1844) Wilson Shannon (Minister 1844-45) David Conner (Special Diplomatic Agent 1846) Nathan Clifford (Minister 1848-49) Robert P. Letcher (Minister 1849-52) Robert Greenhow (Special Diplomatic Agent 1850) George G. Goss (Special Diplomatic Agent 1850-52) George W. Slacum (Special Diplomatic Agent 1851) Edward Smith (Special Diplomatic Agent 1852) Alfred Conkling (Minister 1852-53) George E. Cooper (Special Diplomatic Agent 1853) Christopher L. Ward (Special Diplomatic Agent 1853) James Gadsden (Minister 1853-56) Richard S. Spofford (Special Diplomatic Agent 1854) John Forsyth (Minister 1856-58) William M. Churchwell (Special Diplomatic Agent 1858) Alfred Mordecai (Special Diplomatic Agent 1858) Duff Green (Special Diplomatic Agent 1859) David Porter (Special Diplomatic Agent 1859) Robert Milligan McLane (Minister 1859-60) Henry Roy de la Reintrie (Special Diplomatic Agent 1860) John B. Weller (Minister 1860-61) Thomas Corwin (Minister 1861-64) Robert W. Shufelt (Special Diplomatic Agent 1862) Marcus Otterbourg (Minister 1867) William S. Rosecrans (Minister 1868-69) Thomas H. Nelson (Minister 1869-73) John W. Foster (Minister 1873-80) Philip Hickey Morgan (Minister 1880-85) Henry R. Jackson (Minister 1885-86) Thomas Courtland Manning (Minister 1886-87) Edward S. Bragg (Minister 1888-89) Thomas Ryan (Minister 1889-93) Isaac P. Gray (Minister 1893-95) Matt W. Ransom (Minister 1895-97) Powell Clayton (Minister 1897-98) Powell Clayton (Ambassador 1898-1905) Edwin H. Conger (Ambassador 1905) David E. Thompson (Ambassador 1906-09) Henry L. Wilson (Ambassador 1909-12) Henry P. Fletcher (Ambassador 1916-19) Charles B. Warren (Ambassador 1924) James R. Sheffield (Ambassador 1924-27) Dwight W. Morrow (Ambassador 1927-30) J. Reuben Clark, Jr. (Ambassador 1930-33) Josephus Daniels (Ambassador 1933-41) George S. Messersmith (Ambassador 1941-46) Walter C. Thurston (Ambassador 1946-50) William O'Dwyer (Ambassador 1950-52) Francis White (Ambassador 1953-57) Robert C. Hill (Ambassador 1957-60) Thomas Clifton Mann (Ambassador 1961-63) Fulton Freeman (Ambassador 1964-69) Robert H. McBride (Ambassador 1969-74) Joseph John Jova (Ambassador 1974-77) Patrick J. Lucey (Ambassador 1977-79) Julian Nava (Ambassador 1980-81) John A. Gavin (Ambassador 1981-86) Charles J. Pilliod, Jr. (Ambassador 1986-89) John D. Negroponte (Ambassador 1989-) Jeffrey S. Davidow (Ambassador 1998)

U.S. Politicians who lived in Mexico

Mexico City (Ciudad de México): John Wilson, Jr.

U.S. Politicians who died in Mexico

No city given: Moses V. Grant 1846 John J. Hardin 1847 Archibald Yell 1847 M. M. Parsons 1865 Isaac P. Gray 1895 de Lesseps S. Morrison 1964

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

Unknown location

Unknown Locations
Mexico

Politicians buried here:

Henry Cooper (1827-1884) — of Tennessee. Born in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., August 22, 1827. Brother of Edmund Cooper. Democrat. Member of Tennessee state house of representatives, 1853; state court judge in Tennessee, 1862; member of Tennessee state senate, 1869; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1871-77. Killed by bandits in Tierra Blanca, Guadelupe y Calvo, Chihuahua, February 3, 1884. Interment somewhere; cenotaph at City Cemetery, Shelbyville, Tenn.
- See also: congressional biography.

Politicians formerly buried here:

Robert Milner Echols (1798-1847) — also known as Robert M. Echols — of Walton County, Ga. Born near Washington, Wilkes County, Ga., 1798. Member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1824-29; member of Georgia state senate, 1830-44; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Killed in action when he fell from his horse during battle, at National Bridge (Puente Nacional), near Veracruz, Veracruz, December 3, 1847. Original interment somewhere; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Walton County, Ga. Echols County, Ga. is named for him.

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