Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...April, '93 he accepted the position of third assistant secretary of state, and after holding this post for one year he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Ecuador...
...achievements in war have indicated the leading position she is to take among the nations of the orient. An interesting addition to the knowledge of the early days of Japan's new life is given in Dr. W. E. Griffis's biographical sketch of Townsend Harris, the first American envoy to Japan. Townsend Harris was undoubtedly the greatest of the foreign diplomats sent to Japan, and his influence in the development of representative institutions there is recognized by none more than by the Japanese themselves. Dr. Griffis's book not only contains many interesting extracts from Harris's jounal, telling...
...Townsend Harris, First American Envoy to Japan. By W. E. Griffis, D.D. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston...
After nine years of preparation, Mr. Bancroft published in 1834 the first volume of his "History of the United State." Six years later appeared the second volume. The next decade the historian passed in politics, holding the offices of collector of the port of Boston, envoy to Great Britain, and secretary of the navy. He signalized his administration of this latter position by the foundation of the naval academy at Annapolis and the astronomical observatory at Washington...