The Political Graveyard: Peru

Peru

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Peru information:

Population: 27,483,864
Land area 496,226 square miles.
Capital: Lima

Neighboring areas:

North: Colombia
East: Brazil
Southeast: Bolivia
South: Chile
West: South Pacific Ocean
Northwest: Ecuador

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Peru

James Cooley (Charge d'Affaires 1826-28) Samuel Larned (Charge d'Affaires 1828-37) James B. Thornton (Charge d'Affaires 1837-38) J. C. Pickett (Charge d'Affaires 1838-45) John A. Bryan (Charge d'Affaires 1845) Albert G. Jewett (Charge d'Affaires 1845-47) John R. Clay (Charge d'Affaires 1847-53) John R. Clay (Minister 1853-60) Christopher Robinson (Minister 1861-65) Alvin P. Hovey (Minister 1865-70) Thomas Settle (Minister 1871) Francis Thomas (Minister 1872-75) Richard Gibbs (Minister 1875-79) Isaac P. Christiancy (Minister 1879-81) Stephen A. Hurlbut (Minister 1881-82) James R. Partridge (Minister 1882-83) Seth Ledyard Phelps (Minister 1883-85) Charles W. Buck (Minister 1885-89) John Hicks (Minister 1889-93) James A. McKenzie (Minister 1893-97) Irving B. Dudley (Minister 1897-1907) Leslie Combs (Minister 1907-11) H. Clay Howard (Minister 1911-13) Benton McMillin (Minister 1913-19) William E. Gonzales (Ambassador 1919-21) Miles Poindexter (Ambassador 1923-28) Alexander P. Moore (Ambassador 1928-29) Fred Morris Dearing (Ambassador 1930-37) Laurence A. Steinhardt (Ambassador 1937-39) R. Henry Norweb (Ambassador 1940-43) John Campbell White (Ambassador 1944-45) William D. Pawley (Ambassador 1945-46) Prentice Cooper (Ambassador 1946-48) Harold H. Tittmann, Jr. (Ambassador 1948-55) Ellis O. Briggs (Ambassador 1955-56) Theodore C. Achilles (Ambassador 1956-60) Selden Chapin (Ambassador 1960) James I. Loeb (Ambassador 1961-62) J. Wesley Jones (Ambassador 1962-69) Taylor G. Belcher (Ambassador 1969-74) Robert W. Dean (Ambassador 1974-77) Harry W. Shlaudeman (Ambassador 1977-80) Edwin G. Corr (Ambassador 1980-81) Frank V. Ortiz (Ambassador 1981-83) David C. Jordan (Ambassador 1984-86) Alexander Fletcher Watson (Ambassador 1986-89) Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (Ambassador 1989-92) Alvin P. Adams, Jr. (Ambassador 1993-96) Dennis C. Jett (Ambassador 1996-99) John R. Hamilton (Ambassador 1999-2002) John R. Dawson (Ambassador 2002-03)

U.S. Consuls in Peru

(may be incomplete!)

Arequipa: Gabriel Louis Anciaux (Consular Agent 1926) J. Neil Murphy (Consular Agent 1927-29) Jack Dwyre (Consular Agent 1947)
Callao: James H. McColley (Consul 1864-69) William B. Dickey (Consul 1897-98) W. S. McBride (Vice Consul 1897-98) Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (Consul 1903-05) Alfred L. M. Gottschalk (Consul General 1905-06) Luther K. Zabriskie (Deputy Consul 1912-13) Luther K. Zabriskie (Vice & Deputy Consul 1913-15) William W. Handley (Consul General 1914-16)
Callao-Lima: William W. Handley (Consul General 1917) Walter C. Hoer (Vice Consul 1922) Fred D. Waddell (Vice Consul 1922) William D. Smith, Jr. (Vice Consul 1922) Claude E. Guyant (Consul 1922-25) Nelson R. Park (Vice Consul 1923-26) Ellis O. Briggs (Vice Consul 1925-27) James V. Picken (Vice Consul 1925-26) George A. Makinson (Consul 1925-29) Nelson R. Park (Consul 1926) John M. Cabot (Vice Consul 1927-29) Samuel Reber, Jr. (Vice Consul 1927-29) William C. Burdett (Consul General 1930-35) William F. Cavanaugh (Vice Consul 1932) J. Kenly Bacon (Vice Consul 1932) Arthur D. Jukes (Vice Consul 1932) Edwin McKee (Vice Consul 1932) Harold D. Clum (Consul General 1935) Mason Turner (Consul 1938) Harold E. Montomat (Vice Consul 1938) Anthony Gembs (Vice Consul 1938)
Iquitos: Charles C. Eberhardt (Consul 1906-08) Stuart J. Fuller (Consul 1912-13) Robert E. Cashin (Vice Consul 1942) Louis G. Gallardy (Consular Agent 1947)
La Oroya: Harold L. Crane (Consular Agent 1926-29) Norman Duncan (Consular Agent 1932-47)
Lima: Jeremy Robinson (Agent for Commerce and Seamen 1817) Homer Brett (Consul General 1938) Richard M. de Lambert (Consul 1947)
Mollendo: Thomas Orams (Consular Agent 1926) Ernest L. Quenet (Consular Agent 1929-32) Felipe Ferrer (Consular Agent 1938-47)
Paita: Obed Folger (Consul 1833-34) Charles B. G. Wilson (Consular Agent 1926-29)
Salaverry: Floyd Sears (Consular Agent 1926-29) Charles Yeager Derby (Consular Agent 1938) Albert Ivan Beggs (Consular Agent 1947)

Protestant Cemetery
Isla San Lorenzo, Peru

Politicians buried here:

James Cooley (1791-1828) — of Ohio. Born in 1791. U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Peru, 1826-28, died in office 1828. Died in Lima, Peru, February 24, 1828. Interment at Protestant Cemetery.

El Angel Cemetery
Lima, Peru

Politicians buried here:

Anthony Gembs (d. 1968) — U.S. Vice Consul in Callao-Lima, 1938. Died December 25, 1968. Interment at El Angel Cemetery.

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U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Peru

U.S. Consuls in Peru

U.S. Politicians who lived in Peru

U.S. Politicians who died in Peru

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