Leland B. Morris

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Leland Burnette Morris (born February 7, 1886 in Fort Clark , Kinney County , Texas , † July 2, 1950 ) was an American diplomat .

Career

Leland Morris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania . In 1910 he was accredited as an attaché interpreter in the Ottoman Empire . From 1914 to 1917 he was Vice-Consul in Smyrna , from 1918 to 1919 Consul in Montreal . In 1919 he was with the US High Commission in Constantinople . From 1919 to 1922 Morris was Vice-Consul in Thessaloniki . In 1926 he was accredited in Cologne and from 1927 to 1929 in Athens . In 1932 Leland Morris became Consul General in Athens. From October 1940 to December 11, 1941 he was the US chargé d'affaires in Berlin and thus the highest ranking US diplomat in the German Reich, after the US ambassador was withdrawn in 1938 in protest against the " Reichskristallnacht ". It was Germany declared war on the United States passed. He was then interned in Bad Nauheim until the beginning of 1942 and then brought back to the USA via Lisbon with the support of Swiss diplomats . He later became the first US envoy with the rank of ambassador to Iran . During his term of office, the Tehran Conference took place from November 28 to December 1, 1943 .

literature

  • David Shavit: The United States in the Middle East: a historical dictionary , 1988, 441 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NY Times: LELAND B. MORRIS, 64, US EX-ENVOY TO IRAN (English)
  2. ↑ a b Dowling, Timothy C. (2004). Personal perspectives: World War II. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-575-9 .
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Comstock Kirk US Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin
October 1940 to December 11, 1941 		James Bryant Conant
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. US envoy in Reykjavík
October 7, 1942 to May 10, 1944 		Lincoln MacVeagh
Louis G. Dreyfus U.S. Ambassador to Tehran
May 11, 1942 to July 18, 1943 		Wallace S. Murray
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. US envoy to EDES in
1943 		Lincoln MacVeagh
personal data
SURNAME Morris, Leland B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morris, Leland Burnette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Clark , Texas
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1950