Thomas W. Cridler
Thomas Wilbur Cridler (1850-1914) was
Biography
Thomas Wilbut Cridler was born in Harpers Ferry, Virginia on November 13, 1850. He was educated in Virginia, and Washington, D.C., where he studied law.
On July 1, 1875, Cridler joined the United States Department of State as a clerk. He rose steadily through the ranks of the State Department. He traveled to Europe several times on government business and served as the State Department's special disbursing officer at the International Monetary Conference held in Brussels on November 22, 1892.
In 1897,
Upon his resignation from the State Department in 1901, Cridler became Commissioner for Europe for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. In 1911, he became vice president of the Collin Armstrong Advertising Company.
Cridler died at his home in New York City on February 23, 1914.
Works by Thomas W. Cridler
References
- "Thomas W. Cridler Dead; Third Assistant Secretary of State Under President McKinley", The New York Times, Feb. 25, 1914
- Who in America (1903-1905), p. 337
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 12 (1904), p. 318
External links
- Works by or about Thomas W. Cridler at Internet Archive
- Asst. Secretary of State Cridler Writes of His Fury Over McKinley's Assassination Shapell Manuscript Foundation
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