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William Elliott Gonzales
United States Ambassador to Peru
In office April 24, 1920 – October 11, 1921
President	Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding
Preceded by	Benton McMillin
Succeeded by	Miles Poindexter
United States Ambassador to Cuba
In office August 9, 1913 – December 18, 1919
President	Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	Arthur M. Beaupre
Succeeded by	Boaz W. Long

William Elliott Gonzales (1866 – October 20, 1937) was the United States Ambassador to Cuba from 1913 to 1919 and the United States Ambassador to Peru from 1919 to 1921. He was born to Ambrosio José Gonzales and Harriott Rutledge Elliott. On February 2, 1887, he married Sarah C. Shiver. He served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War.

Sometime between 1909 and 1912, Gonzales was the Editor of The State newspaper and used the paper's reach to help raise $11,000 in private subscriptions for the purposes of erecting the South Carolina Monument to the Women of the Confederacy. The South Carolina General Assembly appropriated another $7,500 for the monument.

He was later the United States Ambassador to Cuba from 1913 to 1919. He was the United States Ambassador to Peru from 1919 to 1921.

He died on October 20, 1937. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia, South Carolina. The Gonzales Fountain was erected in Arsenal Hill in his memory.

References

1. "South Carolina Monument to the Women of the Confederacy | Historic Columbia". www.historiccolumbia.org. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
2. "South Carolina Monument to the Women of the Confederacy | Historic Columbia". www.historiccolumbia.org. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
3. "W. E. Gonzales, 71, Carolina Editor. Publisher of The State Last of Three Brothers Who Built Up Paper in Columbia". New York Times. October 21, 1937. Retrieved 2011-01-05.
4. Scott, Brian (2023). "The Gonzales Fountain". Historical Marker Database. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2023.

External links

• Media related to William E. Gonzales at Wikimedia Commons

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Chargé d'Affaires	Cooley Larned Thornton Pickett Bryan Jewett Clay
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Clay Robinson Hovey Settle Thomas Gibbs Christiancy Hurlbut Phelps Buck Hicks McKenzie Dudley Combs Howard McMillin
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Gonzales Poindexter Moore Dearing Steinhardt Norweb White Pawley Cooper Tittmann Briggs Achilles Chapin Loeb Jones Belcher Dean Shlaudeman Corr Ortiz Jordan Watson Quainton Brayshaw (a.i.) Adams Jett Hamilton Dawson Struble McKinley Likins Nichols Urs Kenna Syptak-Ramnath

• 1866 births
• 1937 deaths
• Ambassadors of the United States to Cuba
• Ambassadors of the United States to Peru
• Hispanic and Latino American diplomats
• 20th-century American diplomats
• Diplomats from South Carolina