Ellis O. Briggs

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Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (4th from left) with the Chinese diplomat Yu Wanchang

Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (born December 1, 1899 in Watertown , Massachusetts , † February 21, 1976 in Gainesville , Georgia ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador several times .

Life

Ellis Ormsbee Briggs, son of James Briggs and his wife Lucy Hill, graduated from Dartmouth College , from which he graduated in 1921 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then worked between 1921 and 1923 as a teacher of geography and English at Robert College , a US high school and boarding school in Istanbul founded in 1863 . After joining the US State Department , he was first Vice Consul in Lima between 1926 and 1928 and then third secretary at the Embassy in Peru from 1928 to 1933 . After he was Third Secretary at the Embassy in Cuba between 1933 and 1937 , he served as Deputy Head of the Department for American Republics in the State Department from 1937 to 1940 and briefly in 1940 as a diplomat on a special mission on the east coast of South America . He was then consul and first secretary at the embassy in Chile from 1940 to 1941 and first secretary at the embassy in Cuba from 1941 to 1944, before he was head of the Caribbean and Central America Department in the Foreign Ministry for some time in 1944 .

On March 21, 1944, Briggs was appointed Ambassador of the United States to the Dominican Republic and handed over his letter of accreditation there on June 3, 1944 as the successor to Avra M. Warren . He stayed there until January 14, 1945 and was then replaced by Joseph F. McGurk . In 1945 he briefly served as Counselor for Economics at the Embassy in the Republic of China in Chongqing and then between 1945 and 1947 as Head of the Department for American Republics in the State Department. On July 3, 1947, he was appointed ambassador to Uruguay and handed over his credentials on August 21, 1947 as the successor to Joseph F. McGurk. He was dismissed from this post on August 6, 1949, whereupon Christian M. Ravndal took over his successor there.

Ellis O. Briggs, in turn, received his appointment as Ambassador of the United States to Czechoslovakia on September 1, 1949, and presented his letter of accreditation on November 8, 1949 as the successor to Joseph E. Jacobs . On August 27, 1952, he left this post and was then replaced by George Wadsworth . In the course of the Korean War he was appointed ambassador to South Korea on August 25, 1952 and handed over his certification on November 25, 1952 as the successor to John J. Muccio . He remained in this position until April 12, 1955 and was then replaced by William SB Lacy . After almost thirty years in the foreign service, he returned to Lima, where he was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Peru on March 24, 1955 , and there he handed over his letter of accreditation on March 27, 1955 to succeed Harold H. Tittmann . He held this post until June 5, 1956 and was then replaced by Theodore Achilles .

Briggs was then appointed ambassador to Brazil on May 29, 1956 , where he succeeded James Clement Dunn . He handed over his credentials on July 24, 1956 and remained in this use until May 2, 1959, after which Clare Boothe Luce was his successor. He was then appointed Ambassador of the United States to Greece on April 8, 1959 as the successor to James Williams Riddleberger , where he handed over his accreditation on July 15, 1959. He held this post until February 1, 1962, when he was replaced by Henry R. Labouisse . Awarded the rank of Career Ambassador on June 24, 1960 . An originally planned appointment as ambassador to Spain was withdrawn due to his health prior to the referral in the US Senate .

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom , Ellis Ormsbee Briggs had been married to Lucy Barnard Briggs since 1928. From this marriage the daughter Lucy Therina Briggs and Everett Briggs emerged, who was also a diplomat and several times ambassador.

Publications

  • Shots Heard Round the World: An Ambassador's Hunting Adventures on Four Continents , (1957, autobiography)
  • Farewell to Foggy Bottom: The Recollections of a Career Diplomat (1964, autobiography)
  • Anatomy of Diplomacy: The Origin and Execution of American Foreign Policy (1968)
  • Proud Servant: Memoirs of a Career Ambassador (1998, autobiography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Dominican Republic on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Uruguay on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Czechoslovakia on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Korea on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Peru on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  6. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Brazil on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  7. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Brazil on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  8. ^ Career Ambassadors on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Briggs, Ellis O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briggs, Ellis Ormsbee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Watertown , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1976
Place of death Gainesville , Georgia