Charles MacVeagh
Charles MacVeagh | |
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United States Ambassador to Japan | |
In office December 9, 1925 – December 6, 1928 | |
President | Calvin Coolidge |
Preceded by | Edgar Bancroft |
Succeeded by | William Richards Castle Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | West Chester Pennsylvania, U.S. | June 6, 1860
Died | December 4, 1931 Santa Barbara, California | (aged 71)
Education | Harvard University Columbia University |
Charles MacVeagh (June 6, 1860 – December 4, 1931) was an American lawyer and diplomat.
Early life
Charles MacVeagh was born in
Undergraduate study at
Career
MacVeagh was general solicitor and assistant general counsel of the
President Calvin Coolidge named him Ambassador to Japan. He was commissioned Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on September 24, 1925, during a recess of the Senate. He was recommissioned after his confirmation by the Senate on December 17, 1925. Ambassador MacVeagh presented his credentials to the Japanese government on December 9, 1925, and served until December 6, 1928.[2]
After his return from Tokyo, he returned to the law in the firm of
Charles MacVeagh was the father of Lincoln MacVeagh, who served as United States ambassador to several nations under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and Ewen MacVeagh, who married the artist Louise Thoron MacVeagh.
MacVeagh was interested in his (and his wife's) Scottish heritage. In the 1910s he built an extensive summer estate called Fasnacloich (named after a Scottish manor originally in his wife's family) in Harrisville, New Hampshire, not far from his brother Franklin's Knollwood estate. The estate, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is an homage to English and Scottish medieval houses, featuring terraced gardens and imported Italian fountains. The MacVeaghs entertained literary, artistic, and political figures there.[3]
He died on December 4, 1931, in Santa Barbara, California.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e "Charles M'Veagh Dies in California," New York Times, December 5, 1931.
- ^ a b US Department of State, Office of the Historian: Charles McVeagh, 1860–1931
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Fasnacloich". National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
External links
- Media related to Charles MacVeagh at Wikimedia Commons