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Bulgaria
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Bulgaria
John B. Jackson (Minister 1911-13) Charles J. Vopicka (Minister 1913-19) Charles S. Wilson (Minister 1921-28) Henry Wharton Shoemaker (Minister 1930-33) Frederick A. Sterling (Minister 1933-36) Ray Atherton (Minister 1937-39) George H. Earle (Minister 1940-41) Donald R. Heath (Minister 1947-50) Edward Page, Jr. (Minister 1959-62) Eugenie Anderson (Minister 1962-64) Nathaniel Davis (Minister 1965-66) John M. McSweeney (Minister 1966-67) John M. McSweeney (Ambassador 1967-70) Horace G. Torbert, Jr. (Ambassador 1970-73) Martin Florian Herz (Ambassador 1974-77) Raymond Leonard Garthoff (Ambassador 1977-79) Jack Richard Perry (Ambassador 1979-81) Robert Louis Barry (Ambassador 1981-84) Melvyn Levitsky (Ambassador 1984-87) Sol Polansky (Ambassador 1987-90) Hugh Kenneth Hill (Ambassador 1990-) William Dale Montgomery (Ambassador 1993) Avis T. Bohlen (Ambassador 1996-99) Richard M. Miles (Ambassador 1999-2002) |
"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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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. |