The Political Graveyard: Switzerland

Switzerland

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Switzerland information:

Population: 7,283,274
Land area 15,942 square miles.
Capital: Berne

Neighboring areas:

North: Germany
East: Austria; Liechtenstein
South: Italy
West: France

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Switzerland

Theodore S. Fay (Minister 1853-61) George G. Fogg (Minister 1861-65) George Harrington (Minister 1865-69) Horace Rublee (Minister 1869-76) Horace Rublee (Charge d'Affaires 1876) Nicholas Fish (Charge d'Affaires 1877-81) Michael J. Cramer (Charge d'Affaires 1881-82) Michael J. Cramer (Minister 1882-85) Boyd Winchester (Minister 1885-89) John D. Washburn (Minister 1889-92) Person C. Cheney (Minister 1892-93) James O. Broadhead (Minister 1893-95) John L. Peak (Minister 1895-97) John G. A. Leishman (Minister 1897-1901) Arthur S. Hardy (Minister 1901-03) David J. Hill (Minister 1903-05) Brutus J. Clay (Minister 1905-10) Lauritz S. Swenson (Minister 1910-11) Henry S. Boutell (Minister 1911-13) Pleasant Alexander Stovall (Minister 1913-19) Hampson Gary (Minister 1920-21) Joseph C. Grew (Minister 1921-24) Hugh S. Gibson (Minister 1924-27) Hugh R. Wilson (Minister 1927-37) Leland Harrison (Minister 1937-47) John Carter Vincent (Minister 1947-51) Richard C. Patterson, Jr. (Minister 1951-53) Frances E. Willis (Ambassador 1953-57) Henry J. Taylor (Ambassador 1957-61) Robert M. McKinney (Ambassador 1961-63) True Davis (Ambassador 1963-65) John S. Hayes (Ambassador 1966-69) Shelby Davis (Ambassador 1969-75) Peter H. Dominick (Ambassador 1975) Nathaniel Davis (Ambassador 1975-77) Marvin L. Warner (Ambassador 1977-79) Richard D. Vine (Ambassador 1979-81) Faith Whittlesey (Ambassador 1981-83) John Davis Lodge (Ambassador 1983-85) Faith Whittlesey (Ambassador 1985-88) Philip D. Winn (Ambassador 1988-89) Joseph Gildenhorn (Ambassador 1989-93) M. Larry Lawrence (Ambassador 1994-96) Madeleine M. Kunin (Ambassador 1996-99) J. Richard Fredericks (Ambassador 1999-2001) Mercer Reynolds III (Ambassador 2001-03) Pamela P. Willeford (Ambassador 2003-06) Peter R. Conaway (Ambassador 2006) Don Beyer (Ambassador 2009)

U.S. Consuls in Switzerland

(may be incomplete!)

Aarau: Remigius Sauerlander (Consular Agent 1897) Harry H. Morgan (Consul 1898-1902) Remigius Sauerlander (Vice & Deputy Consul 1898-1902) Joseph F. Voltz (Consular Agent 1904)
Basel: Stephen Powers (Consul 1838-42) George Gifford (Consul 1897-1906) Lyman C. Bryan (Vice Consul 1897) Samuel Hollinger (Vice & Deputy Consul 1898-1906) Philip Holland (Consul 1913-23) Arnold Zuber (Vice Consul 1914-16) Carl O. Spamer (Vice Consul 1917) Hasell H. Dick (Vice Consul 1917-19) William E. Holland (Vice Consul 1919) John H. Lord (Consul 1920) Charles A. Amsden (Vice Consul 1924) Calvin M. Hitch (Consul 1924-29) Charles W. Allen (Vice Consul 1926-27) Albert W. Scott (Vice Consul 1927-29) H. Merle Cochran (Consul 1932) Alfred T. Burri (Consul 1932) Alfred W. Donegan (Consul 1933) Clarence J. Spiker (Consul General 1938) Montgomery H. Colladay (Vice Consul 1938) John A. Lehrs (Vice Consul 1943) Thomas R. Flack (Vice Consul 1943) Julius C. Jensen (Vice Consul 1943) Walter H. Sholes (Consul General 1943-47)
Berne: J. E. Hinnen (Vice Consul 1897) A. L. Frankenthal (Consul 1898-1902) Emil David (Vice & Deputy Consul 1898) Leo J. Frankenthal (Vice & Deputy Consul 1902-14) Edward Higgins (Consul 1903) George Heimrod (Consul 1908-14) Max J. Baehr (Consul 1914-15) James M. Bowcock (Vice Consul 1914-15) Thomas H. Bevan (Vice Consul 1916-17) Walter H. Schulz (Consul 1916-17) Leon Böhm de Sauvanne (Vice Consul 1916) Rudolf E. Schoenfeld (Vice Consul 1917-21) Francis R. Stewart (Consul 1919) William P. Kent (Consul 1919) Thornwell Haynes (Consul 1924) Charles W. Allen (Vice Consul 1924-26) Donald R. Heath (Consul 1925-29) Jack T. Sherman (Vice Consul 1927-43) Gerald Keith (Consul 1938) Buford G. Rogers (Vice Consul 1943) John H. Madonne (Consul 1943-47) Theodore J. Hadraba (Vice Consul 1945) Theodore J. Hadraba (Consul 1945)
Geneva: William Fell Giles, Jr. (Consul 1858-61) Benjamin H. Ridgely (Consul 1897) Richard M. Bartleman (Consul 1900) Horace Lee Washington (Consul 1905) Louis H. Munier (Vice & Deputy Consul 1905) Francis B. Keene (Consul 1905-15) Louis H. Munier (Vice Consul 1914-17) Lewis W. Haskell (Consul 1915-24) Samuel Edelman (Vice Consul 1919) Hasell H. Dick (Vice Consul 1919-20) William E. DeCourcy (Vice Consul 1923-24) S. Pinkney Tuck (Consul 1924-28) Dudley Longyear (Vice Consul 1924) John W. Bailey, Jr. (Vice Consul 1924-26) Stanley Woodward (Vice Consul 1926-29) Gilson G. Blake, Jr. (Consul 1927-36) Elbridge D. Rand (Consul 1929) Marc Smith (Vice Consul 1929-32) Curtis T. Everett (Consul 1929-38) Margaret Warner (Vice Consul 1929-31) Jacob D. Beam (Vice Consul 1931-34) James W. Riddleberger (Vice Consul 1932) Henry P. Leverich (Vice Consul 1932) Prentiss B. Gilbert (Consul 1932) Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr. (Vice Consul 1933-36) Hiram A. Boucher (Consul 1936-41) Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr. (Consul 1937-38) Margaret M. Hanna (Consul 1937-38) Donald D. Edgar (Consul 1937-38) Howard Bucknell, Jr. (Consul 1937-39) Thomas J. Cole (Vice Consul 1938) La Verne Baldwin (Consul 1938) Hayward G. Hill (Consul 1938) Frank Cussans (Vice Consul 1943) Paul C. Squire (Consul 1943) Howard Elting, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) Harry L. Troutman (Consul 1947) Graham Anderson Martin (Consul General 1960-61)
Horgen: Harry H. Morgan (Consul 1897-98)
Lausanne: Fletcher Dexter (Consular Agent 1916-17) Fletcher Dexter (Vice Consul 1919-24) Frederick W. Baldwin (Vice Consul 1925-28) John W. Bailey, Jr. (Vice Consul 1925) Frederick W. Baldwin (Consul 1928-32) Clifford W. McGlasson (Vice Consul 1932)
Lucerne: Harry H. Morgan (Consul 1902-06) Julius Hartmann (Vice & Deputy Consul 1905) Robert E. Mansfield (Consul 1906-08) Julius Hartmann (Consular Agent 1916-17) James J. Murphy, Jr. (Consul 1924) George R. Hukill (Vice Consul 1926-27) Robert D. Longyear (Consul 1926) George R. Hukill (Consul 1929)
St. Gall: James T. DuBois (Consul General 1897-1901) Irving B. Richman (Consul General 1897) Joseph Simon (Vice Consul General 1897) Hernando de Soto (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1903-05) Thomas W. Peters (Consul General 1905-06) Silas C. McFarland (Consul General 1907) Hernando de Soto (Vice & Deputy Consul General 1907) Eugene Nabel (Vice Consul 1907-14) Robert E. Mansfield (Consul 1908-09) Dominic I. Murphy (Consul 1909-14) George N. Ifft (Consul 1916) James L. A. Burrell (Vice Consul 1916-17) William J. Pike (Consul 1917-19) Gebhard Willrich (Consul 1924) R. Barry Bigelow (Vice Consul 1924) Maynard B. Barnes (Consul 1924-25)
Zurich: Henry Mahler (Consul 1843-44) William L. J. Kiderlin (Consul 1852-53) James Remington Fairlamb (Consul General 1862-65) Charles A. Page (Consul General 1865) Samuel H. M. Byres (Consul 1874) Ephraim L. Corning (Vice Consul 1874) Eugene Germain (Consul 1893-97) Henry Labhart (Vice Consul 1897) Adam Lieberknecht (Consul 1902-07) W. A. Steinmann (Vice & Deputy Consul 1902) Joseph Simon (Vice & Deputy Consul 1907) Hector de Castro (Consul General 1908-09) Robert E. Mansfield (Consul General 1909-13) David F. Wilber (Consul General 1913-15) Frank Bohr (Vice Consul 1913-18) Francis B. Keene (Consul General 1915-17) Louis Lombard (Vice Consul 1916-17) Rudolf E. Schoenfeld (Vice Consul 1916-17) Leo J. Keena (Consul General 1919-20) Ilo C. Funk (Vice Consul 1919-21) L. Raphael Geisler (Vice Consul 1919) Robert Lee Gray, Jr. (Vice Consul 1919) Alfred W. Donegan (Consul 1919-21) George H. Murphy (Consul General 1920-24) Robert D. Murphy (Vice Consul 1921) Jurgen H. L. Lorentzen (Vice Consul 1921) Charles W. Allen (Vice Consul 1921-24) James R. Wilkinson (Vice Consul 1924) W. Helmuth Mathee (Vice Consul 1924) George A. Armstrong (Vice Consul 1924-28) James R. Wilkinson (Consul 1926) G. Bie Ravndal (Consul General 1926-27) Cavendish W. Cannon (Vice Consul 1927-28) Lewis W. Haskell (Consul General 1929-32) George R. Hukill (Consul 1932) Maurice W. Altaffer (Consul 1933-43) Carl W. Strom (Vice Consul 1938) Harlan B. Clark (Vice Consul 1938) Arthur C. Frost (Consul General 1938-40) Clare H. Timberlake (Vice Consul 1938) Walter W. Ostrow (Vice Consul 1938) Eugene Nabel (Vice Consul 1938-43) Martin J. Hillenbrand (Vice Consul 1939) Nicholas Feld (Vice Consul 1939) James B. Stewart (Consul General 1940) Carl A. Fisher (Consul 1940) Sam E. Woods (Consul General 1943-47) Robert T. Cowan (Vice Consul 1943) Phil H. Hubbard (Consul 1943) Bolard More (Vice Consul 1943)

Village Cemetery
Vevey, Switzerland

Politicians buried here:

Robert John Thompson — also known as Robert J. Thompson — U.S. Consul in Aix-la-Chapelle, 1914. Died, of a heart attack, in Montreux, Switzerland. Interment at Village Cemetery.

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U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Switzerland

U.S. Consuls in Switzerland

U.S. Politicians who were born in Switzerland

U.S. Politicians who lived in Switzerland

U.S. Politicians who died in Switzerland

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