The Political Graveyard: Thailand

The Political
Graveyard

Thailand

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Thailand information:

Population: 61,797,751
Land area 198,456 square miles.
Capital: Bangkok

Neighboring areas:

Northeast: Laos
Southeast: Cambodia
South: Gulf of Thailand; Malaysia
Southwest: Andaman Sea
Northwest: Burma

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Thailand

John A. Halderman, Jr. (Minister to Siam 1882-85) Jacob T. Child (Minister to Siam 1886) Sempronius H. Boyd (Minister to Siam 1890) John Barrett (Minister to Siam 1894-98) Hamilton King (Minister to Siam 1898-1912) Fred Warner Carpenter (Minister to Siam 1912-13) William H. Hornibrook (Minister to Siam 1915) George Pratt Ingersoll (Minister to Siam 1917-18) George W. P. Hunt (Minister to Siam 1920-21) Edward Everett Brodie (Minister to Siam 1921-25) William W. Russell (Minister to Siam 1925-26) Harold Orville Mackenzie (Minister to Siam 1927-30) David E. Kaufman (Minister to Siam 1930-33) James Marion Baker (Minister to Siam 1933-37) Edwin L. Neville (Minister to Siam 1937) Hugh Gladney Grant (Minister 1940) Willys R. Peck (Minister 1941) Charles W. Yost (Charge d'Affaires 1945) Edwin F. Stanton (Minister 1946-47) Edwin F. Stanton (Ambassador 1947) William J. Donovan (Ambassador 1953) John E. Peurifoy (Ambassador 1954-55) Max Waldo Bishop (Ambassador 1955) U. Alexis Johnson (Ambassador 1958-61) Kenneth Todd Young, Jr. (Ambassador 1961) Graham Anderson Martin (Ambassador 1963-67) Leonard Unger (Ambassador 1967) William R. Kintner (Ambassador 1973-75) Charles S. Whitehouse (Ambassador 1975) Morton I. Abramowitz (Ambassador 1978-81) John Gunther Dean (Ambassador 1981) William Andreas Brown (Ambassador 1985) Daniel Anthony O'Donohue (Ambassador 1988) William H. Itoh (Ambassador 1995) Richard E. Hecklinger (Ambassador 1999-2001)

U.S. Consuls in Thailand

(may be incomplete!)

Bangkok: John A. Halderman, Jr. (Consul 1880) John Barrett (Consul General 1894-98) E. V. Kellett (Vice Consul General 1897) Hamilton King (Consul General 1898-1902) Thomas H. Hays (Vice Consul General 1902) Montgomery Schuyler, Jr. (Consul General 1904-06) Paul Noah (Consul General 1904) Joseph P. Selden (Vice Consul General 1904) James W. White (Vice Consul General 1906) John Van A. MacMurray (Consul General 1907) Carl C. Hansen (Vice Consul 1909-29) Sheldon L. Crosby (Consul General 1912-14) James P. Davis (Consul 1921-22) Charles H. Albrecht (Consul 1923-26) Randolph F. Carroll (Consul 1926) Charles A. Bay (Consul 1928-29) Kennett F. Potter (Vice Consul 1932) Robert English (Vice Consul 1932) Henry A. Post (Vice Consul 1932) Elvin Seibert (Vice Consul 1938) H. Gordon Minnigerode (Vice Consul 1938) J. Holbrook Chapman (Consul 1938) Halvern L. Norris (Vice Consul 1938)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Thailand

Bangkok: Evelyn Lundburg Stratton c.1946

U.S. Politicians who lived in Thailand

Bangkok: Carl C. Hansen
Lakawn (now Lampang): Carl C. Hansen

U.S. Politicians who died in Thailand

Bangkok: Hamilton King 1912 Carl C. Hansen 1929
Near Hua Hin: John E. Peurifoy 1955

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

Lampang Christian Cemetery

Christian Cemetery
Lampang, Thailand

Politicians buried here:

Carl Christian Hansen (1863-1929) — also known as Carl C. Hansen — of Lakawn (now Lampang), Thailand; Bangkok, Thailand. Born in Bornholm, Denmark, May 15, 1863. Physician; U.S. Vice Consul in Bangkok, 1909-29. Died, of intestinal cancer, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 1929. Interment at Christian Cemetery.

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