John W. Foster Born: 2-Mar-1836 Birthplace: Pike County, IN Died: 15-Mar-1917 Location of death: Washington, DC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, IN
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Diplomat Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States Executive summary: US Secretary of State, 1892-93 Military service: US Army (Civil War) Father: Matthew Watson (farmer Mother: Eleanor Johnson Wife: Mary Park McFerson (m. 1859) Daughter: Edith Foster Dulles (mother of John Foster Dulles and Allen W. Dulles)
University: BA, Indiana State University (1855) Law School: Harvard Law School (no degree)
US Secretary of State (1892-93) US Ambassador to Spain (1883-85) US Ambassador to Russia (1880-81) US Ambassador to Mexico (1873-80) Indiana State Official Postmaster, Evansville (1869) Evansville Daily Journal Editor
Indiana State Bar Association 1857
Author of books:
A Century of American Diplomacy, 1776-1886 (1900) American Diplomacy in the Orient (1903) Arbitration and the Hague Court (1904) The Practice of Diplomacy (1906) War Stories For My Grandchildren (1918)
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