Henry Percival Dodge

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Henry Percival Dodge (1915)

Henry Percival Dodge (born January 18, 1870 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 16, 1936 in Zurich ) was an American diplomat .

Life

Henry Percival Dodge, son of Henry Cleaves Dodge and his wife Alice Almia Lamb Dodge, was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in El Salvador on July 1, 1907 during a break in the session of the US Senate , and was confirmed by the Senate on December 12, 1907. He then handed over his letter of accreditation on December 31, 1907 as the successor to William L. Merry and remained in this post until February 6, 1909, whereupon William Heimke became his successor on October 18, 1909. On July 1, 1907, he also succeeded Joseph WJ Lee as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Hondurasappointed and remained in this post also until February 6, 1909, before Philip Marshall Brown was his successor there on February 21, 1909. Subsequently, on May 12, 1909, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco . On June 9, 1909, he was officially received by a representative of the Sultan of Morocco Mulai Abd al-Hafiz and held this position until July 10, 1910, whereupon Fred W. Carpenter succeeded him on July 27, 1910.

Subsequently, Dodge took over the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister in Panama on July 6, 1911 and handed over his letter of accreditation there on November 9, 1911 as successor to Thomas Cleland Dawson . On June 13, 1913, he was recalled as envoy to Panama and replaced on October 11, 1913 by William Jennings Price . On July 17, 1919, he was appointed as the first extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister in the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and held this position after handing over his letter of accreditation on October 5, 1919 until March 21, 1926. May 1926 John Dyneley Prince succeeded him. Most recently he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Denmark on February 23, 1926 and handed over his letter of accreditation on August 24, 1926 as the successor to John Dyneley Prince. He held this post until March 1, 1930 and was replaced by Ralph H. Booth on June 13, 1930.

H. Percival Dodge was first married to Margaret Riché Adams, who died in 1919. In 1922 he married Agnes Page-Brown for the second time.

Web links

  • Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Entry in The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for El Salvador on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Honduras on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Morocco on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Panama on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Yugoslavia on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  6. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Denmark on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Dodge, Henry Percival
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1936
Place of death Zurich