John W. Foster
- ️Wed Mar 02 1836
| John Watson Foster | |
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| In office June 29, 1892 – February 23, 1893 |
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| Preceded by | James G. Blaine |
| Succeeded by | Walter Q. Gresham |
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| Born | March 2, 1836 Petersburg, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, 1917 (aged 81) U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Profession | Lawyer, General, Politician |
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| Service/branch | Union Army |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat.
Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the Evansville Daily Journal from 1865 to 1869. Thereafter he was the U.S. Minister to Mexico (1873–1880), to Russia (1880–1881) and to Spain (1883–1885). In the Benjamin Harrison Administration he served as a State Department "trouble shooter" before replacing James G. Blaine who had succumbed to what became a fatal attack of Bright's Disease. He served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and 1893. He also helped the Qing Dynasty in drafting the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 as a legal consultant and commissioner.
His grandchildren included John Foster Dulles, who also became a U.S. Secretary of State, Allen Welsh Dulles, a Director of Central Intelligence, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, economist and diplomat. He is also the great-grandfather of the noted Catholic theologian Cardinal Avery Dulles.
See also
References
- John W. Foster. Michael Devine, London: The Ohio University Press, 1981.
External links
- 1892-1893: Secretary of State John Watson Foster
- John W. Foster profile at Internet Accuracy Project
| Diplomatic posts | ||
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| Preceded by Thomas H. Nelson |
U.S. Minister to Mexico 1873-1880 |
Succeeded by Philip H. Morgan |
| Preceded by Edwin W. Stoughton |
U.S. Minister to Russia 1880-1881 |
Succeeded by William H. Hunt |
| Preceded by Hannibal Hamlin |
U.S. Minister to Spain 1883–1885 |
Succeeded by Jabez L. M. Curry |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by James G. Blaine |
United States Secretary of State Served under: Benjamin Harrison 1892 – 1893 |
Succeeded by Walter Q. Gresham |
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| Secretary of Foreign Affairs 1781-1789 |
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| Secretary of State 1789-Pres. |
Jefferson • Randolph • Pickering • J. Marshall • Madison • Smith • Monroe • Adams • Clay • Van Buren • E. Livingston • McLane • Forsyth • Webster • Upshur • Calhoun • Buchanan • Clayton • Webster • Everett • Marcy • Cass • Black • Seward • Washburne • Fish • Evarts • Blaine • Frelinghuysen • Bayard • Blaine • Foster • Gresham • Olney • Sherman • Day • Hay • Root • Bacon • Knox • Bryan • Lansing • Colby • Hughes • Kellogg • Stimson • Hull • Stettinius • Byrnes • G Marshall • Acheson • Dulles • Herter • Rusk • Rogers • Kissinger • Vance • Muskie • Haig • Shultz • Baker • Eagleburger • Christopher • Albright • Powell • Rice • Clinton |
| Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893) | ||
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| Vice President |
Levi P. Morton (1889–1893) |
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| Secretary of State |
James G. Blaine (1889–1892) • John W. Foster (1892–1893) |
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| Secretary of the Treasury |
William Windom (1889–1891) • Charles W. Foster (1891–1893) |
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| Secretary of War |
Redfield Proctor (1889–1891) • Stephen B. Elkins (1891–1893) |
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| Attorney General |
William H. H. Miller (1889–1893) |
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| Postmaster General |
John Wanamaker (1889–1893) |
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| Secretary of the Navy |
Benjamin F. Tracy (1889–1893) |
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| Secretary of the Interior |
John W. Noble (1889–1893) |
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| Secretary of Agriculture |
Jeremiah M. Rusk (1889–1893) |
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