Ambrose Dudley man

Ambrose Dudley man

Ambrose Dudley Mann (born April 26, 1801 in Hanover Courthouse , Hanover County , Virginia , †  November 15, 1889 in Paris ) was an American diplomat , first Assistant Secretary of State in the State Department of the United States , Commissioner for the Confederate States of America and consul and honorary citizen in and from Bremen .

biography

Mann studied among other things at the United States Military Academy at West Point . He was then the American consul in Bremen from 1842 to around 1847. In 1845 he negotiated trade agreements with the Kingdom of Hanover , the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and in 1847 with all other German federal states with the exception of Prussia . In 1849 he was appointed US representative in Hungary and in 1850 in Switzerland, with whom he negotiated a state treaty.

In 1853, Mann was appointed the first Assistant Secretary of State to the United States Department of State . He held this second highest position in the ministry until 1855; this was at the time of US President Franklin Pierce and Secretary of State William L. Marcy .

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Mann worked on behalf of the Confederate States primarily for the development of the material interests of the southern states. In 1861 he was appointed the first Confederate Commissioner (Ambassador) in Europe by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his Foreign Minister Robert Toombs , and soon he was responsible for Belgium and the Vatican .

After his active service in France, Mann lived with an apartment in Paris and a country house in Chantilly . He was buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris.

Honors

• Man in 1847 for his contribution to the establishment of the first US postal service to Bremerhaven for Freeman of the City of Bremen appointed.