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American diplomat (1865–1912)

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Thomas Cleland Dawson

7th United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
In office July 23, 1904 – May 5, 1907
Preceded by	William F. Powell
Succeeded by	Fenton R. McCreery
8th United States Ambassador to Colombia
In office October 16, 1907 – April 25, 1909
Preceded by	John Barrett
Succeeded by	Elliott Northcott
24th United States Ambassador to Chile
In office August 20, 1909 – November 16, 1909
Preceded by	John Hicks
Succeeded by	Henry P. Fletcher
6th United States Ambassador to Panama
In office September 24, 1910 – December 1, 1910
Preceded by	R. S. Reynolds Hitt
Succeeded by	Henry Percival Dodge

Personal details
Born	(1865-07-30)July 30, 1865 Hudson, Wisconsin
Died	May 1, 1912(1912-05-01) (aged 46)

Thomas Cleland Dawson (July 30, 1865 – May 1, 1912) was a career United States diplomat.

Biography

Born in Hudson, Wisconsin, Dawson received his bachelor's degree from Hanover College and his law degree from University of Cincinnati College of Law. He also studied at Harvard University. Dawson practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa and Council Bluffs, Iowa and was an assistant Iowa Attorney General. He was also a newspaper publisher. Dawson entered the diplomatic service in 1891, when he was appointed Secretary of Legation in Brazil. He was U.S. minister and consul general to the Dominican Republic (1904‑1907), during which term he negotiated the American-Dominican Fiscal Convention of 1907; then ambassador to Colombia (1907‑1909), Chile (1909), and Panama (1910). He is the author of The South American Republics (2 vols., 1903 and 1904).

References

'Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary,' Caryn Hannan, North American Book Dist LCC: 2008, Biographical Sketch of Thomas Cleland Dawson, pg.100-101
Database

External links

Works by Thomas C. Dawson at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Thomas C. Dawson at the Internet Archive
Works by Thomas C. Dawson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

v t e United States ambassadors to Chile
Minister Plenipotentiary	Allen
Chargé d'Affaires	Larned Hamm Pollard Pendleton Crump Barton
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Peyton Starkweather Bigler Nelson Kilpatrick Root Logan Osborn Kilpatrick Logan Roberts Egan Porter Strobel Wilson Hicks Dawson Fletcher
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Fletcher Shea Collier Culbertson Sevier Philip Armour Bowers Beaulac Lyon Howe Woodward Cole Dungan Korry Davis Popper Landau Theberge Barnes Gillespie Kamman Guerra-Mondragón O'Leary Brownfield Kelly Simons Wolff Hammer Perez Meehan

v t e United States ambassadors to Colombia
Gran Colombia
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Anderson Watts (chargé d'affaires) Harrison Moore
Republic of New Granada
Chargé d'Affaires	McAfee Semple Blackford Bidlack Foote King Green
Minister Resident	Bowlin Jones
United States of Colombia
Minister Resident	Burton Sullivan Hurlbut Scruggs Dichman Maney
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Scruggs Jacob
Republic of Colombia
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Maury Abbott McKinney Hart Beaupre Russell Barrett T. Dawson Northcott DuBois Thompson Philip Piles Caffery Whitehouse W. Dawson
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Braden Lane Wiley Beaulac Waynick Schoenfeld Bonsal Cabot McIntosh Freeman Oliver Carlson Vaughn Saccio Vaky Sanchez Asencio Boyatt Tambs Gillespie McNamara Busby Frechette Kamman Patterson Wood Brownfield McKinley Whitaker Goldberg Palmieri (chargé d'affaires)

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