John W. Foster

John W. Foster

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=John Watson Foster


order=32nd
title=United States Secretary of State
term_start=June 29, 1892
term_end=February 23, 1893
predecessor=James G. Blaine
successor=Walter Q. Gresham
birth_date = birth date|1836|3|2|mf=y
birth_place = Petersburg, Indiana, U.S.
death_date = death date and age|1917|11|15|1836|03|02
death_place = U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=
profession=Lawyer, General, Politician

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, Avery Cardinal Dulles.

ee also

References

*John W. Foster. Michael Devine, London: The Ohio University Press, 1981.

External links

* [http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/40857.htm 1892-1893: Secretary of State John Watson Foster]
* [http://www.accuracyproject.org/cbe-Foster,JohnW.html John W. Foster profile at Internet Accuracy Project]


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