Alexander Comstock Kirk

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Alexander Comstock Kirk

Alexander Comstock Kirk (born November 26, 1888 in Chicago , Illinois , † March 23, 1979 ) was an American diplomat .

Life

Alexander Comstock Kirk's parents were Clara Comstock and James Alexander Kirk, a successful soap maker. He studied at the Sorbonne , École libre des sciences politiques in Paris , at Yale University and at Harvard Law School . In 1915, Kirk became the private secretary of the Third Assistant Secretary of State. From August 1915 to April 1916 he was embassy secretary at the embassy in Berlin . In 1916 Kirk was accredited at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople and in 1917 at the Embassy in The Hague . From 1918 to 1919 he took part in the Paris Peace Conference. From 1919 to 1920, Kirk was imDepartment of State employed in Washington. In 1922 he was accredited to the embassy in Tokyo, 1923 to the embassy in Beijing, 1924 to the embassy in Mexico City , and again in 1925 to the embassy in Berlin.

In 1928 Kirk was promoted to counselor and transferred to Rome. In 1937 he was after Moscow placed where it 1,938 Charge d'Affaires was. In 1938 Kirk was consul general in Barcelona . He came to the embassy in Berlin as a counselor in May 1939. He became chargé d'affaires here and then in Rome. In November 1943, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke asked for a meeting with Kirk in Istanbul .

At the time, Alexander Comstock Kirk was US ambassador to the King of Egypt , Faruq . In 1944, Alexander Comstock Kirk was an advisor to Dwight D. Eisenhower , the Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. In 1945 the US embassy in Rome was housed in Palazzo Barberini .

Alexander Comstock Kirk is buried on the Cimitero Acattolico .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2742.html
  2. ^ The New York Times , March 02, 1916, BERLIN POST FOR HARRIMAN . New Yorker Will Succeed Kirk as Secretary of the Embassy
  3. ↑ http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/psf/box31/t296i05.html
  4. ^ Peter Hoffmann, The history of the German resistance, 1933-1945 , p. 226
  5. ↑ Life , Ambassador Kirk
  6. ↑ http://www.acdan.it/protcem/work/pcEN.html
predecessor Office successor
Joseph E. Davies U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Moscow
June 11, 1938 to March 23, 1939 		Laurence Steinhardt
Hugh Robert Wilson US Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin
May 1939 to October 1940 		Chargé d'affaires Leland B. Morris
Bert Fish U.S. envoy in Cairo
March 29, 1941 to April 29, 1944 		Somerville Pinkney Tuck
Bert Fish U.S. envoy to Riyadh
May 11, 1942 to July 18, 1943 		James S. Moose
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle US ambassador to Athens in
1943 		Lincoln MacVeagh
George Wadsworth U.S. Ambassador to Rome
January 8, 1945 to March 5, 1946 		James Clement Dunn
personal data
SURNAME Kirk, Alexander Comstock
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1979