The Political Graveyard: Sweden

Sweden

Sweden information:

Population: 8,875,053
Land area 173,732 square miles.
Capital: Stockholm

Neighboring areas:

East: Finland; Gulf of Bothnia; Baltic Sea
Southwest: Denmark; Kattegat; Skagerrak
West: Norway

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Sweden
U.S. Consuls in Sweden
U.S. Politicians who were born in Sweden
U.S. Politicians who lived in Sweden

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Sweden

Jonathan Russell (Minister 1814-18) Christopher Hughes (Charge d'Affaires 1819-25) John James Appleton (Charge d'Affaires 1826-30) Christopher Hughes (Charge d'Affaires 1830-41) George W. Lay (Charge d'Affaires 1842-45) Henry William Ellsworth (Charge d'Affaires 1845-49) Francis Schroeder (Charge d'Affaires 1849-54) Francis Schroeder (Minister 1854-57) Benjamin F. Angel (Minister 1857-61) Jacob S. Haldeman (Minister 1861-64) James Hepburn Campbell (Minister 1864-67) Joseph Jackson Bartlett (Minister 1867-69) Christopher Columbus Andrews (Minister 1869-77) John L. Stevens (Minister 1877-83) William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (Minister 1883-85) Rufus Magee (Minister 1885-89) William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (Minister 1889-94) Thomas Barker Ferguson (Minister 1894-98) William Widgery Thomas, Jr. (Minister 1898-1905) Charles H. Graves (Minister 1905-13) Ira Nelson Morris (Minister 1914-23) Robert Woods Bliss (Minister 1923-27) Leland Harrison (Minister 1927-29) John M. Morehead (Minister 1930-33) Laurence A. Steinhardt (Minister 1933-37) Fred Morris Dearing (Minister 1937-38) Frederick A. Sterling (Minister 1938-41) Herschel V. Johnson II (Minister 1941-46) Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. (Minister 1946-47) H. Freeman Matthews (Ambassador 1947-50) W. Walton Butterworth (Ambassador 1950-53) John M. Cabot (Ambassador 1954-57) Francis White (Ambassador 1957-58) James C. H. Bonbright (Ambassador 1958-61) J. Graham Parsons (Ambassador 1961-67) William Womack Heath (Ambassador 1967-69) Jerome Heartwell Holland (Ambassador 1970-72) Robert Strausz-Hupé (Ambassador 1974-76) David Shiverick Smith (Ambassador 1976-77) Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott (Ambassador 1977-80) Franklin S. Forsberg (Ambassador 1981-85) Gregory J. Newell (Ambassador 1985-89) Charles Edgar Redman (Ambassador 1989-91) Thomas L. Siebert (Ambassador 1993) Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr. (Ambassador 1997) Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. (Ambassador 2001)

U.S. Consuls in Sweden

(may be incomplete!)

Gothenberg (Göteborg): Paul Berghaus (Vice & Deputy Consul 1897) Otto H. Boyesen (Consul 1897) Robert S. S. Bergh (Consul 1898-1907) Stuart J. Fuller (Consul 1911-12) Douglas Jenkins (Consul 1912-13) Emil Sauer (Consul 1913-15) Wilhelm Hartman (Vice Consul 1914-17) Bertil M. Rasmusen (Consul 1916-17) Einar T. Anderson (Vice Consul 1918-20) Walter H. Sholes (Consul 1919-24) Robert F. Fernald (Consul 1924) George B. Seawright (Vice Consul 1926) Henry C. von Struve (Consul 1926-29) T. Edmund Burke (Vice Consul 1927) Leonard G. Bradford (Vice Consul 1927) Herbert C. Biar (Vice Consul 1929-32) Robert Harnden (Consul 1932) Knowlton V. Hicks (Vice Consul 1932) William W. Corcoran (Consul 1938-43) William P. Shockley (Vice Consul 1938) Finn B. Jensen (Vice Consul 1943) Stanley R. Lawson (Vice Consul 1943) William W. Corcoran (Consul General 1947) Samuel J. Fletcher (Consul General 1947-48) E. Talbot Smith (Consul General 1949)
Malmo: Joseph Westerberg (Consular Agent 1916-17) Harold B. Quarton (Consul 1918-19) Parker W. Buhrman (Consul 1918) Frank C. Lee (Vice Consul 1918) George Gregg Fuller (Vice Consul 1921) Gerhard H. Krogh (Consul 1924) T. Edmund Burke (Vice Consul 1926) William Oscar Jones (Vice Consul 1926) Ralph A. Boernstein (Vice Consul 1927) Ralph A. Boernstein (Consul 1929) Christian T. Steger (Consul 1930) Alexander P. Cruger (Consul 1932)
Norrköping: Martin Leaf (Vice Consul 1919)
Stockholm: David Erskine (Consul 1818-36) Charles D. Arfwedson (Consul 1836-58) A. W. Frestadius (Consul 1858-61) Charles A. Leas (Consul 1861-62) Benjamin F. Tefft (Consul 1862-63) George V. Tefft (Consul 1863-64) Thomas B. O'Neil (Consul 1897) Axel Georgii (Vice Consul 1897) Edward L. Adams (Consul General 1902-09) Augustus E. Ingram (Vice Consul 1905) Per Torsten Berg (Vice Consul 1909-24) Ernest L. Harris (Consul General 1911-16) Jacob M. Bagge (Vice Consul 1916) Robert E. Mansfield (Consul General 1917) Heaton W. Harris (Consul General 1917-18) William Coffin (Consul General 1917-18) Albert Halstead (Consul General 1918-19) Orsen N. Nielsen (Vice Consul 1918-21) Einar T. Anderson (Vice Consul 1918) George D. Hopper (Consul 1919) Charles H. Safely (Vice Consul 1919) Cary R. Miller (Vice Consul 1919) Dominic I. Murphy (Consul General 1919-24) Robert F. Fernald (Vice Consul 1921-22) Robert F. Fernald (Consul 1922-24) Walter A. Leonard (Consul 1924) Benjamin M. Hulley (Vice Consul 1926-29) Karl de G. MacVitty (Consul 1926-27) Claude I. Dawson (Consul General 1926) Maurice P. Dunlap (Consul 1927-32) John Ball Osborne (Consul General 1927-29) Harold Carlson (Vice Consul 1932-43) Roger C. Tredwell (Consul General 1932) Monnett B. Davis (Consul General 1933-34) William P. Snow (Vice Consul 1938) Frithjof C. Sigmond (Vice Consul 1938-43) Hallett C. Johnson (Consul General 1938) Lynn W. Franklin (Consul 1938) Fritz A. M. Alfsen (Vice Consul 1940) Lewis E. Gleeck, Jr. (Vice Consul 1942) Christian M. Ravndal (Consul 1943-47) Winthrop S. Greene (Consul 1943) Paul H. Pearson (Vice Consul 1943) Brewster H. Morris (Vice Consul 1943) H. Francis Cunningham, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943-45) George Lybrook West, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943-45) David H. McKillop (Vice Consul 1943) M. Gordon Knox (Vice Consul 1943) Henry Hanson, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) S. Walter Washington (Consul 1943) E. Allen Lightner, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) Harry E. Carlson (Consul 1943) Lawrence W. von Hellens (Vice Consul 1943) L. Randolph Higgs (Consul 1947)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Sweden

No city given: Gustav C. Hebbe c.1814 Charles J. Sundell c.1821 Charles J. A. Ericson c.1841 Peter Lind 1851 Per Torsten Berg 1853 Otto H. Boyesen c.1853 John A. Holmberg 1862 Charles F. Sundstrom 1865 Frederick Lundin 1868 P. B. Anderson 1868 Francis J. Plym 1869 Victor Benson 1873 Oscar E. Nelson 1874 Helmer Bruce 1877 Pehr G. Holmes 1881 Charles E. Nelson 1882 A. H. Letzler 1884 J. Hugo Aronson 1891 Axel John Beck 1894 Tore Wallin c.1930
Össjö: Carlos J. Stolbrand 1821
Amal, Dalsland: John Magnus Almen 1850
Blekinge: Andrew F. Anderson 1857
Helsingborg: Joseph B. Johnson 1893
Kanna, Smaland: John Lind 1854
Landskrona: Alfred J. Pearson 1869
Lidkoping: Eric G. Hoyer 1898
Ringvattnet, Alanas Socken Jamtland: Mike Holm 1876
Sodermanland: John A. Gustafson 1856
Stockholm: Charles A. Lindbergh 1859 Barbara Ackermann 1925
Värmland: Nils Nyquist 1846 Adolph O. Eberhart 1870 Magnus Johnson 1871
Voldsjo: Peter E. Hanson 1845
Wester, Gottland: Joseph E. Anderson 1884

U.S. Politicians who lived in Sweden

No city given: J. Brad DeLange

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