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U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Australia
Clarence E. Gauss (Minister 1940-41) Nelson T. Johnson (Minister 1941-45) Robert Butler (Ambassador 1946-48) Myron M. Cowen (Ambassador 1948-49) Pete B. Jarman (Ambassador 1949-53) Amos J. Peaslee (Ambassador 1953-56) Douglas Maxwell Moffat (Ambassador 1956) William Joseph Sebald (Ambassador 1957-61) William Cullen Battle (Ambassador 1962-64) Edward Clark (Ambassador 1965-67) William H. Crook (Ambassador 1968-69) Walter Lyman Rice (Ambassador 1969-73) Marshall Green (Ambassador 1973-75) James W. Hargrove (Ambassador 1976-77) Philip H. Alston, Jr. (Ambassador 1977-81) Robert D. Nesen (Ambassador 1981-85) Laurence W. Lane, Jr. (Ambassador 1985-89) Melvin F. Sembler (Ambassador 1989-93) Edward J. Perkins (Ambassador 1993-96) Genta H. Holmes (Ambassador 1997) Edward W. Gnehm, Jr. (Ambassador 2000) John Thomas Schieffer (Ambassador 2001) |
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
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The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead. | ||
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Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
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Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDLmi.com. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. |