Edwin Vernon Morgan

Edwin Vernon Morgan (born February 22, 1865 in Aurora , New York , † April 14, 1934 in Petrópolis , Brazil) was an ambassador of the United States .

Life

Edwin Vernon Morgan was the son of Margaret Bogart and Henry Augustus Morgan and the grandson of Edwin B. Morgan . He graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1890 and a master's degree in 1891 , and completed postgraduate courses from 1891 to 1892 and from 1894 to 1895 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. From 1893 to 1895 he taught history at Harvard University and from 1895 to 1898 at Adelbert College in Cleveland, Ohio .

He entered the foreign service under John Hay . In 1899 he was Secretary of the American Samoa Commission, in 1900 in Seoul in the Korean Empire and in 1901 as the second-class legation secretary in Saint Petersburg . In 1904 he was appointed consul in Dalian , an office which the Russo-Japanese War prevented him from carrying out .

Edwin Vernon Morgan was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Seoul in the Korean Empire on March 18, 1905 , where he was accredited to Emperor Gojong from June 26, 1905 to November 28, 1905 . On November 17, 1905, the Japanese government took over the Korean Foreign Ministry. Morgan closed the Legation on November 28, 1905 and left Korea on December 8, 1905.

On November 29, 1905 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Havana , the appointment was ratified on December 11, 1905 by the Senate of the United States . On March 1, 1906, he was accredited to the government of Tomás Estrada Palma . On January 5, 1910, he left his post as ambassador after the United States Senate revoked his appointment as ambassador.

On December 21, 1909 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Asunción and Montevideo . In Asunción he was accredited from June 29, 1910 to July 8, 1911. Based in Asunción, he was accredited in Montevideo from March 31, 1910 to July 8, 1911.

On May 24, 1911, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Lisbon , where he was accredited from August 3, 1911 to February 11, 1912.

On January 18, 1912, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Rio de Janeiro , where he was accredited from June 4, 1912 to August 23, 1933. He resigned from his post as ambassador to Rio de Janeiro, was retired and settled in Petrópolis. Thanks to the more civilized living conditions in the former royal seat, cerebral hemorrhage or myocardial infarction are named as the cause of death , depending on the source . The grave of the longest serving US ambassador to a mission is on the Cemitério Municipal da Petrópolis at the Mausoléu Imperial .

Publications

• Slavery in New York. The Status Of The Slave Under The English Colonial Government , 1891, reprinted in Half Moon Series 1898. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Find a Grave
2. ↑ Edwin V. Morgan journals , 1899–1926
3. ^ Office of the Historian , Edwin Vernon Morgan
4. ↑ the Grave of the Longest-Serving American Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan in Petrópolis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Horace Newton Allen	Ambassador to Korea June 26, 1905 to November 28, 1905	John J. Muccio
Herbert G. Squiers	Ambassador to Cuba March 1, 1906 to January 5, 1910	John Brinkerhoff Jackson
Edward C. O'Brien	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Asunción June 29, 1910 to July 8, 1911	Nicolai A. Grevstad
Henry Sherman Boutell	Ambassador to Portugal August 3, 1911 to February 11, 1912	Cyrus Woods
Irving Bedell Dudley	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro June 4, 1912 to August 23, 1933	Hugh S. Gibson