The Political Graveyard: Venezuela

The Political
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Venezuela
South America

Venezuela information:

Population: 23,916,810
Land area 352,144 square miles.
Capital: Caracas

See also: Gran Colombia

Neighboring areas:

North: Caribbean Sea
Northeast: North Atlantic Ocean
East: Guyana
South: Brazil
West: Colombia

The Political Graveyard:

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

U.S. Diplomatic chiefs of mission to Venezuela

John G. A. Williamson (Charge d'Affaires 1835-40) Allen A. Hall (Charge d'Affaires 1841-44) Vespasian Ellis (Charge d'Affaires 1844) Benjamin Glover Shields (Charge d'Affaires 1845) Isaac Nevitt Steele (Charge d'Affaires 1849) Charles Eames (Charge d'Affaires 1854) Charles Eames (Minister 1854) Edward A. Turpin (Minister 1858) Erastus D. Culver (Minister 1862) James Wilson (Minister 1866-67) Thomas N. Stilwell (Minister 1867-68) James R. Partridge (Minister 1869) William Anderson Pile (Minister 1871-74) Thomas Russell, Jr. (Minister 1874-77) Jehu Baker (Minister 1878-81) George W. Carter (Minister 1881) Jehu Baker (Minister 1882-85) Charles L. Scott (Minister 1885-89) William L. Scruggs (Minister 1889) Frank Charles Partridge (Minister 1893-94) Seneca Haselton (Minister 1894) Allen Thomas (Minister 1895) Francis B. Loomis (Minister 1897-1901) Herbert W. Bowen (Minister 1901-05) William W. Russell (Minister 1905-09) John W. Garrett (Minister 1910-11) Elliott Northcott (Minister 1911-13) Preston Buford McGoodwin (Minister 1913-21) Willis C. Cook (Minister 1921-29) George T. Summerlin (Minister 1929-34) Meredith Nicholson (Minister 1935) Antonio C. Gonzalez (Minister 1938) Frank P. Corrigan (Ambassador 1939-47) Walter J. Donnelly (Ambassador 1947-50) Norman Armour (Ambassador 1950-51) Fletcher Warren (Ambassador 1951-56) Dempster McIntosh (Ambassador 1956-57) Edward J. Sparks (Ambassador 1958-61) Teodoro Moscoso (Ambassador 1961) Charles Allen Stewart (Ambassador 1962) Maurice M. Bernbaum (Ambassador 1965-69) Robert McClintock (Ambassador 1970) Harry W. Shlaudeman (Ambassador 1975) Viron P. Vaky (Ambassador 1976) William Henry Luers (Ambassador 1978) George W. Landau (Ambassador 1982) Otto Juan Reich (Ambassador 1986) Michael Martin Skol (Ambassador 1990) Jeffrey S. Davidow (Ambassador 1993) John F. Maisto (Ambassador 1997-2000) Donna Jean Hrinak (Ambassador 2000)

U.S. Consuls in Venezuela

(may be incomplete!)

Caracas: F. De Sola (Consular Agent 1897) H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld (Consular Agent 1910-12) Richard J. Biggs, Jr. (Consular Agent 1912-17) Homer Brett (Consul 1919-20) Arthur R. Williams (Vice Consul 1924-26) Thomas W. Voetter (Consul 1924) Henry M. Wolcott (Consul 1926-29) Julius Wadsworth (Vice Consul 1929) William K. Ailshie (Vice Consul 1930) Albert H. Cousins, Jr. (Vice Consul 1932) Henry C. von Struve (Consul 1932) George R. Phelan (Vice Consul 1938-43) Stewart E. McMillin (Consul 1938) Livingston Satterthwaite (Vice Consul 1938) Maurice M. Bernbaum (Vice Consul 1942-45) William L. S. Williams (Vice Consul 1943) Francis E. Grimes (Vice Consul 1943) James P. Moffitt (Consul 1943) Roswell C. Beverstock (Vice Consul 1943) James P. Moffitt (Consul General 1947)
Ciudad Bolivar: Robert Henderson (Consular Agent 1897) William D. Henderson (Consular Agent 1916-26) Robert Henderson (Vice Consul 1929) William L. Blue (Vice Consul 1943)
La Guaira: John G. A. Williamson (Consul 1827) Philip C. Hanna (Consul 1891-94) Frank D. Hill (Consul 1895-96) Isaac M. Elliott (Consul 1897) Thomas D. Golding (Vice Consul 1897) Carlton Bailey Hurst (Consul 1904-05) Thomas P. Moffatt (Consul 1906) Thomas W. Voetter (Consul 1914) Cyrus N. Clark (Vice Consul 1914) Homer Brett (Consul 1915-19) James R. Daly (Vice Consul 1917) Richard J. Flood, Jr. (Vice Consul 1921) Harry J. Anslinger (Vice Consul 1923-25) Amado Chaves, Jr. (Vice Consul 1924) Daniel J. Driscoll (Vice Consul 1926) Ben C. Matthews (Vice Consul 1929-32) Louis B. Mazzeo (Vice Consul 1938) Carl Breuer (Vice Consul 1943) Manuel J. Codoner (Vice Consul 1947)
Maracaibo: Alfred Laussat (Consul 1832-34) Eugene H. Plumacher (Consul 1897-1906) Robert J. Minlos (Vice Consul 1897) Ralph J. Totten (Consul 1910-11) John K. Baxter (Consul 1914) Werner J. Leitner (Vice Consul 1914) George K. Donald (Consul 1914-17) Carl P. Sutherland (Vice Consul 1916) Emil Sauer (Consul 1917-19) Ralph W. Parkinson (Vice Consul 1917-19) Chester E. Davis (Vice Consul 1919) Dudley G. Dwyre (Consul 1921) Charles F. Payne (Vice Consul 1924) John O. Sanders (Consul 1924) Alexander K. Sloan (Consul 1925-26) Albert H. Gerberich (Consul 1925) Raymond E. Ahern (Vice Consul 1926) Jay Walker (Vice Consul 1926-29) James L. Murphy (Consul 1929) Gerald A. Mokma (Vice Consul 1932) Archer Woodford (Vice Consul 1938) Walter L. Smith (Vice Consul 1943) Robert G. Wesson (Vice Consul 1943) Renwick S. McNiece (Consul 1943) Odin G. Loren (Consul 1947)
Puerto Cabello: Samuel Proskauer (Consul 1894-97) William H. Volkmar (Vice Consul 1897) James W. Johnson (Consul 1906-07) Herbert R. Wright (Consul 1908-17) Lodewyk J. Verhelst (Vice Consul 1914) Emery W. Eaton (Vice Consul 1916) Ambrose Evelyn Moore (Vice Consul 1916) Frank Anderson Henry (Consul 1919) George R. Phelan (Vice Consul 1919-32) John H. G. Meyer (Vice Consul 1919) William P. Garrety (Consul 1921-25)

U.S. Politicians who died in Venezuela

Caracas: John G. A. Williamson 1840 James Wilson 1867 Eunice Carreau 1963

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

Caracas English Cemetery

English Cemetery
Caracas, Venezuela

Politicians buried here:

John Gustavus Adolphus Williamson (1793-1840) — also known as John G. A. Williamson — Born in Roxboro, Person County, N.C., December 2, 1793. Son of James Williamson; married 1832 to Frances Travis; half-brother of Mildred Williamson (who married Calvin Jones). Member of North Carolina state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S. Consul in La Guaira, 1827; candidate for U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1833; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Venezuela, 1835-40, died in office 1840. Scottish ancestry. Died in Caracas, Venezuela, August 7, 1840. Interment at English Cemetery.
- See also Jones-Williamson family of North Carolina

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Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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