Thomas Cleland Dawson
Thomas Cleland Dawson (born July 30, 1865 in Hudson , Wisconsin , † May 1, 1912 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat and lawyer .
Life
His parents were Allan Dawson and Anna Cleland. His father was born in Clackmannanshire , Scotland . His son Allan (born February 16, 1903 in Washington, DC; † October 15, 1949) was Deputy Consul of the USA in Hamburg from 1926 to 1927.
Thomas Cleland Dawson trained as a lawyer at Hanover College and Cincinnati Law School . He published a newspaper and served with the Iowa Attorney General from 1891 to 1894 . He entered the diplomatic service in 1897. He was used there as a troubleshooter . In 1891 he was appointed counselor to the US Ambassador in Rio de Janeiro . Dawson married Luisa Guerra Duval from Porto Alegre in 1897 .
From 1904 to 1907 he was the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to Presidents Carlos Felipe Morales and Ramón Cacéres . In 1906 and 1907 the mood in the Dominican Republic was upset. US President Theodore Roosevelt proposed an agreement to put customs administration under US control, which Dawson negotiated. In 1907 a trade agreement was signed between the governments of the United States and the Dominican Republic.
From 1907 to 1909 he was the US Ambassador to Colombia. In 1909 he was ambassador to Chile. As part of his commitment to collecting debts for Alsop & Co , he demonstratively left his post as ambassador to the government of Chile in 1909.
In 1910 he was ambassador to Panama.
Negotiations with Nicaragua in 1910
Dawson came on October 18, 1910 to negotiate the future governments of Nicaragua and their role on a US warship in the port of Corinto . On October 27, 1910, Nicaraguan government representatives: Juan José Estrada , Foreign Minister Adolfo Díaz , War Minister Luís Mena Solórzano and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas signed a bundle of unilateral commitments, which are generally known as Pactos Dawson , although Thomas C. Dawson has not signed them.
Negotiations on Honduras in 1911
In an uprising against Miguel R. Dávila , which led to a US intervention , Dawson was a mediator between the warring parties in the Bay of Puerto Cortés on the armored cruiser USS Tacoma (CL-20) in 1911 .
Publications
- The South American Republics G. P. Putnam's Sons 1910
Individual evidence
- ^ New York Times , November 7, 1909, SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 6. An agreement was reached to-day between the United States and Chile to submit the Alsop claim to The Hague Tribunal for arbitration. (PDF; 32.7 kB, English)
- ^ New York Times , May 2, 1912, THOMAS J. DAWSON, DIPLOMAT, IS DEAD Known as "Great Pacificator" Because of His Success in Latin-American Republics. (PDF; 80.3 kB; English)
- ↑ Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica in La Prensa 12 DE ABRIL DEL 2005, Los “Pactos Dawson” (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dawson, Thomas Cleland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hudson , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1912 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |