The Political Graveyard: Poland

The Political
Graveyard

Poland

Poland information:

Population: 38,633,912
Land area 120,728 square miles.
Capital: Warsaw

Neighboring areas:

North: Baltic Sea; Kaliningrad Oblast; Lithuania
East: Belarus; Ukraine
South: Slovakia; Czech Republic
West: Germany

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Poland

Hugh S. Gibson (Minister 1919-24) Alfred J. Pearson (Minister 1924-25) John B. Stetson, Jr. (Minister 1925-29) John N. Willys (Ambassador 1930-32) F. Lammot Belin (Ambassador 1932-33) John Cudahy (Ambassador 1933-37) A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. (Ambassador 1937-43) Arthur Bliss Lane (Ambassador 1944-47) Stanton Griffis (Ambassador 1947-48) Waldemar J. Gallman (Ambassador 1948-50) Joseph Flack (Ambassador 1950-55) Joseph E. Jacobs (Ambassador 1955-57) Jacob D. Beam (Ambassador 1957-61) John M. Cabot (Ambassador 1962-65) John A. Gronouski, Jr. (Ambassador 1965-68) Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. (Ambassador 1968-72) Richard T. Davies (Ambassador 1972-78) William E. Schaufele, Jr. (Ambassador 1978-80) Francis J. Meehan (Ambassador 1980-83) John R. Davis, Jr. (Ambassador 1988-90) Thomas W. Simons, Jr. (Ambassador 1990-93) Nicholas Andrew Rey (Ambassador 1993-97) Daniel Fried (Ambassador 1997-2000) Christopher R. Hill (Ambassador 2000) Victor Ashe (Ambassador 2004)

U.S. Consuls in Poland

(may be incomplete!)

Breslau (Wroclaw): Frederick Opp (Consul 1897) Ernest C. F. Pinnoco (Vice Consul 1897) Charles W. Erdman (Consul 1898-99) Neander Alexander (Vice Consul 1898-99) R. D. Mann (Consul 1900) Herman L. Spahr (Consul 1914) Gustav Wiese (Vice Consul 1914) Harry G. Seltzer (Consul 1916-17) Phil H. Hubbard (Vice Consul 1926) John R. Minter (Consul 1926) Lester L. Schnare (Consul 1927-31) Stephen B. Vaughan (Vice Consul 1932) Robert R. Bradford (Consul 1932)
Danzig (Gdansk): Philipp Albrecht (Consular Agent 1897) Ernst A. Claaszen (Consular Agent 1914) William Dawson (Consul 1921) Howard A. Bowerman (Vice Consul 1921) Howard A. Bowman (Vice Consul 1922) Charles L. Hoover (Consul 1922) Charles H. Albrecht (Consul 1922-23) William Oscar Jones (Vice Consul 1924) Edwin Carl Kemp (Consul 1924-29) Arthur F. Tower (Vice Consul 1926) Warwick Perkins (Consul 1932) Waldemar J. Gallman (Consul 1938) Julius Wadsworth (Consul 1938) Charles M. Gerrity (Vice Consul 1938)
Gdansk: Joseph F. Burt (Consul General 1947)
Krakow: Casimir T. Zawadzki (Vice Consul 1947) George D. Andrews (Consul 1947)
Poznan: Howard A. Bowman (Consul 1947)
Stettin (Szczecin): Frederick William Lutze (Consul 1798-1816) John M. Forbes (Consul General 1816-19) Frederick Schillow (Consul 1829-57) Charles F. W. Glanz (Consul 1857-58) Rudolph F. Schillow (Consul 1858-61) Charles J. Sundell (Consul 1861-66) John E. Kehl (Consul 1900-06) Henry C. A. Damm (Consul 1912-15) Emil Schmidt (Vice Consul 1914) Theodore Jaeckel (Consul 1915-17) Cornelius Ferris, Jr. (Consul 1924-25) Rudolf E. Schoenfeld (Consul 1924)
Warsaw: Joseph Rawicz (Consul 1897) Hernando de Soto (Vice Consul 1902-03) Hernando de Soto (Consul 1907-08) Witold Fuchs (Vice Consul 1914-17) Thomas E. Heenan (Consul 1914) Hernando de Soto (Consul 1914-17) Harry A. McBride (Consul 1919-20) Robert L. Rankin (Consul 1920) Leo J. Keena (Consul General 1920-22) Donald R. Heath (Vice Consul 1923-24) Donald R. Heath (Consul 1924-25) Theodore Jaeckel (Consul General 1924-26) John P. Elliott (Vice Consul 1925-27) Albert V. Morris (Vice Consul 1925-27) Chester W. Davis (Consul 1926-29) Sabin J. Dalferes (Vice Consul 1926-27) Charles H. Heisler (Consul 1926-32) Walter A. Leonard (Consul 1926-29) Arthur F. Tower (Vice Consul 1927) George D. Andrews, Jr. (Vice Consul 1928-29) Felix Cole (Consul General 1929) H. Charles Spruks (Vice Consul 1929) J. Klahr Huddle (Consul General 1932) Stewart E. McMillin (Consul 1932) John H. Madonne (Vice Consul 1932) Montgomery H. Colladay (Vice Consul 1932) Carl Birkeland (Vice Consul 1932-38) Andrew E. Donovan II (Vice Consul 1932) Elim O'Shaughnessy (Vice Consul 1938) Thaddeus H. Chylinksi (Vice Consul 1938) Marcel E. Malige (Consul 1938) Thomas H. Bevan (Consul General 1938) George J. Haering (Consul 1938) M. Williams Blake (Vice Consul 1938) E. Tomlin Bailey (Vice Consul 1938) William R. Morton (Vice Consul 1938) Orray Taft, Jr. (Vice Consul 1938) C. Burke Elbrick (Consul 1945) Martin R. Hanchak (Vice Consul 1945)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Poland

No city given: Frank X. Rydzewski 1867 Albert M. Bielawski 1867 Samuel Mandelbaum 1884 Martin Gorski 1886 Nathan D. Perlman 1887 M. Michael Edelstein 1888 Irving Florman 1892 Casimir Kendziorski 1898 Joseph L. Alperson 1907 Stanley J. Davis 1908 Philip H. Goodman c.1922
Bialystock: Sala Burton 1925
Boruszyn: James M. Rozan c.1860
Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland): John G. Langner 1825
Czarnikau, Prussia (now Czarnkow, Poland): Reinhold Sadler 1848
Glecz: Leo J. Nowicki 1904
Gnesen, Prussia (now Gniezno, Poland): Cass J. Jankowski 1889
Gostyn: Thaddeus Machrowicz 1899
Kempen: Max Radin 1880
Kety, Galicia: Marion A. Zioncheck 1901
Konin: Michael Goldwater 1821
Krotowocz: Samuel A. Weiss 1902
Lodz: Louis D. Gibbs 1880 Herman Weinkrantz 1908
Marienburg, Prussia (now Malbork, Poland): Alfred Puhan 1913
Neustadt, West Prussia (now Wejherowo, Poland): William G. Legner 1858
Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland): Lawrence Wisniewski 1855 Leonard W. Schuetz 1887
Near Poznan: John Nichczynski 1889
Przemysl: Stanley Nowak 1903
Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland): Leo Taube 1861
Swiec: William W. Link 1884
Wadowice: Samuel Colman 1933
Warsaw: Walter L. Kanar 1900 Chester Lewandowski 1902
Zeradov: David Ross 1920

U.S. Politicians who died in Poland

Zarnowiec: Joel Barlow 1812

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

Zarnowiec Churchyard

Churchyard
Zarnowiec, Poland

Politicians buried here:

Joel Barlow (1754-1812) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Redding, Fairfield County, Conn., March 24, 1754. Son of Samuel Barlow and Esther (Hull) Barlow; married 1781 to Ruth Baldwin (sister of Abraham Baldwin). Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; writer; poet; U.S. Consul in Cadiz, 1792-93; U.S. Consul General in Algiers, 1796-97; U.S. Minister to France, 1811-12, died in office 1812. Member, Society of the Cincinnati; Freemasons. He was sent to Algeria to negotiate for the release of those held prisoner by the Barbary pirates, and was protected by a detachment of U.S. Marines. The words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the U.S. Marine Hymn are a reference to this incident. Died, of pneumonia or exposure, in Zarnowiec, Poland, December 24, 1812. Interment at Churchyard; cenotaph at Great Pasture Road Cemetery, Redding, Conn.
- See also Baldwin family of Connecticut

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