The Political Graveyard: Turkey

Turkey

Turkey information:

Population: 66,493,970
Land area 301,383 square miles.
Capital: Ankara

Neighboring areas:

North: Black Sea
Northeast: Georgia
East: Armenia; Iran
South: Iraq; Syria; Mediterranean Sea
West: Aegean Sea; Greece
Northwest: Bulgaria

The Political Graveyard:

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Turkey
U.S. Consuls in Turkey
U.S. Politicians who were born in Turkey
U.S. Politicians who died in Turkey

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Turkey

David Porter (Charge d'Affaires 1831-39) David Porter (Minister 1839-43) Dabney Smith Carr (Minister 1843-49) George P. Marsh (Minister 1849-53) Carroll Spence (Minister 1853-57) James Williams (Minister 1858-61) Edward Joy Morris (Minister 1861-70) Wayne MacVeagh (Minister 1870-71) George H. Boker (Minister 1871-75) Horace Maynard (Minister 1875-80) James Longstreet (Minister 1880-81) Lewis Wallace (Minister 1881-85) Samuel S. Cox (Minister 1885-86) Oscar S. Straus (Minister 1887-89) Solomon Hirsch (Minister 1889-92) David P. Thompson (Minister 1892-93) Alexander Watkins Terrell (Minister 1893-96) James B. Angell (Minister 1897-98) Oscar S. Straus (Minister 1898-99) John G. A. Leishman (Minister 1900-06) John G. A. Leishman (Ambassador 1906-09) Oscar S. Straus (Ambassador 1909-10) William W. Rockhill (Ambassador 1911-13) Henry Morgenthau (Ambassador 1913-16) Abram I. Elkus (Ambassador 1916-17) Joseph C. Grew (Ambassador 1927-32) Charles H. Sherrill (Ambassador 1932-33) Robert P. Skinner (Ambassador 1933-36) John Van A. MacMurray (Ambassador 1936-41) Laurence A. Steinhardt (Ambassador 1942-45) Edwin C. Wilson (Ambassador 1945-48) George Wadsworth II (Ambassador 1948-52) George C. McGhee (Ambassador 1952-53) Avra M. Warren (Ambassador 1953-56) Fletcher Warren (Ambassador 1956-60) Raymond A. Hare (Ambassador 1961-65) Parker T. Hart (Ambassador 1965-68) Robert Komer (Ambassador 1968-69) William J. Handley (Ambassador 1969-73) William Butts Macomber, Jr. (Ambassador 1973-77) Ronald I. Spiers (Ambassador 1977-80) James W. Spain (Ambassador 1980-81) Robert Strausz-Hupé (Ambassador 1981-89) Morton I. Abramowitz (Ambassador 1989-) Richard Clark Barkley (Ambassador 1991) Marc Isaiah Grossman (Ambassador 1994) Mark Robert Parris (Ambassador 1997) W. Robert Pearson (Ambassador 2000)

U.S. Consuls in Turkey

(may be incomplete!)

Adrianople (Edirne): Charles E. Allen (Consular Agent 1915-16)
Alexandretta (Iskenderun): Horace Lee Washington (Consul 1897-98) Daniel Walker (Vice Consul 1897) Walter F. Walker (Vice Consul 1898-1902) W. R. Davis (Consul 1902-04) David Lorimer (Vice Consul 1904) William M. Brewster (Consular Agent 1916)
Angora (Ankara): A. Wallace Treat (Vice Consul 1924)
Ankara: Alan Wood Lukens (Vice Consul 1952) Edwin W. Martin (Consul General 1964-67)
Bursa: Erwin F. Lange (Consular Agent 1915-16) Erwin F. Lange (Vice Consul 1916-17)
Constantinople (Istanbul): Frederick E. Bunker (Consul 1832-35) John Porter Brown (Consul 1835-36) George A. Porter (Consul 1837-49) Francis Dainese (Consul 1849-52) A. M. Jackson (Consul 1855-56) Isaac W. Bowdish (Consul 1856-57) John Porter Brown (Consul General 1857-59) James McDowell (Consul General 1858-59) Marshall M. Smith (Consul General 1859-60) Edward P. Peters (Consul 1859-69) J. Hosford Smith (Consul General 1860-61) David Porter Heap (Consul General 1861) Charles W. Goddard (Consul General 1861-64) John H. Goodenow (Consul General 1864-65) D. Stamatiades (Vice Consul 1874) John H. Goodenow (Consul General 1874) Luther Short (Consul General 1896-97) William Albert (Vice Consul General 1897) Hubbard T. Smith (Deputy Consul General 1897) Charles M. Dickinson (Consul General 1897-1906) G. Bie Ravndal (Consul General 1910-17) Oscar S. Heizer (Vice Consul 1914) Bernard Gotlieb (Vice Consul 1915-17) Adolphus Van H. Engert (Vice Consul 1916-17) Montefiore Judelsohn (Vice Consul 1916-17) Charles E. Allen (Vice Consul 1916-17) George Wadsworth II (Vice Consul 1919-20) G. Bie Ravndal (Consul General 1919-24) Charles E. Allen (Vice Consul 1919) Charles E. Allen (Consul 1919-21) Evan E. Young (Consul General 1920) James H. Keeley, Jr. (Vice Consul 1921) Oscar S. Heizer (Consul 1921) F. Willard Calder (Vice Consul 1921) Alfred T. Burri (Vice Consul 1921) Robert W. Imbrie (Vice Consul 1921) Maynard B. Barnes (Vice Consul 1922-23) Charles E. Allen (Consul 1923-29) Maynard B. Barnes (Consul 1923-24) Herbert S. Bursley (Vice Consul 1924) James L. Park (Vice Consul 1924) Edwin A. Plitt (Vice Consul 1924) Thomas Jefferson Murphy (Vice Consul 1924) Royal R. Jordan (Vice Consul 1926-27) Raymond A. Hare (Vice Consul 1927-29) Burton Y. Berry (Vice Consul 1929)
Erzerum (Erzurum): Leo Allen Bergholz (Consul 1896-1903)
Harput: Evan E. Young (Consul 1905-08) Felix Margot (Vice Consul 1907) William E. D. Ward (Vice Consul 1914) William W. Masterson (Consul 1914) Leslie A. Davis (Consul 1916-17)
Iskenderun: Hedley V. Cooke, Jr. (Consul 1943)
Istanbul: Burton Y. Berry (Vice Consul 1932) William M. Cramp (Vice Consul 1932) Charles E. Allen (Consul 1932) S. Walter Washington (Consul 1938) Ellis A. Johnson (Vice Consul 1938) Joseph L. Brent (Consul 1938) Burton Y. Berry (Consul 1943) William N. Fraleigh (Vice Consul 1943) Walter W. Birge, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) Charles P. McVicker, Jr. (Vice Consul 1943) Roy M. Melbourne (Vice Consul 1943) Paul S. Guinn (Consul 1947) Paul C. Hutton (Consul 1949) Elbert G. Mathews (Consul General 1951-52) Alan Wood Lukens (Vice Consul 1953) Anthony D. Marshall (Consul 1958-59) Ben Hill Brown, Jr. (Consul General 1960) James W. Spain (Consul General 1970) Howard Perry Mace (Consul General 1972-76)
Izmir: Herbert S. Bursley (Consul 1932) George W. Renchard (Vice Consul 1932) William Perry George (Consul 1932-33) Charles W. Lewis, Jr. (Consul 1938) William C. Young (Vice Consul 1938) Ellis A. Johnson (Vice Consul 1943-47) Philip Ernst (Consul 1949)
Mersina (Icel): Edward I. Nathan (Consul 1909-17) John Debbas (Vice Consul 1914-17)
Samsun: William Peter (Consular Agent 1916-17) S. Pinkney Tuck (Consul 1921)
Smyrna (Izmir): William Stewart (Consul 1802-23) David Offley (Commercial Agent 1823-32) David Offley (Consul 1832-38) David W. Offley (Consul 1838-46) E. S. Offley (Consul 1848-62) Julius Bing (Consul 1861-64) Andrew J. Stevens (Consul 1865-66) Enoch J. Smithers (Consul 1867-80) J. Griffith (Vice Consul 1874) James H. Madden (Consul 1893-97) Ezra J. Davee (Vice Consul 1897) Thomas H. Norton (Consul 1905-06) Ernest L. Harris (Consul 1906-08) Ernest L. Harris (Consul General 1908-11) George Horton (Consul General 1911-17) Leland B. Morris (Vice Consul 1914-17) William P. Dortch (Vice Consul 1916-17) H. Earle Russell (Vice Consul 1919-21) George Horton (Consul General 1919-22) A. Wallace Treat (Vice Consul 1920-24) Maynard B. Barnes (Vice Consul 1921-22) Frederick O. Bird (Vice Consul 1924) A. Wallace Treat (Consul 1924) Samuel W. Honaker (Vice Consul 1926) Julius C. Holmes (Vice Consul 1927-29) John Corrigan, Jr. (Consul 1927-29)
Trebizond (Trabzon): Edward P. Peters (Consul 1860-69) H. Z. Longworth (Consular Agent 1897) Alfred S. Northrup (Consul 1914-15) Isaiah Montesanto (Vice Consul 1914-19) Oscar S. Heizer (Consul 1916-17) William L. Jenkins (Consul 1917) Ralph F. Chesbrough (Consul 1919)

U.S. Politicians who were born in Turkey

No city given: George F. Smithers c.1856
Constantinople (now Istanbul): Dean Alfange 1899
Everek, Ankara: Dorothy K. Adrounie 1891
Smyrna (now Izmir): David Josiah Brewer 1837 William R. Langdon 1891

U.S. Politicians who died in Turkey

Constantinople (now Istanbul): David Porter 1843 John Porter Brown 1872
Istanbul: Justin R. Whiting 1965

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