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Henry Percival Dodge

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Henry Percival Dodge
Henry Percival Dodge, c. 1915
U.S. Minister to Denmark
In office
August 24, 1926 – March 1, 1930
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Preceded byJohn Dyneley Prince
Succeeded byRalph H. Booth
U.S. Minister to Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
In office
October 5, 1919 – March 21, 1926
PresidentWoodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Preceded byInaugural holder
Succeeded byJohn Dyneley Prince
U.S. Minister to Panama
In office
November 9, 1911 – June 10, 1913
PresidentWilliam Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Preceded byThomas Cleland Dawson
Succeeded byWilliam Jennings Price
U.S. Minister to Morocco
In office
June 9, 1909 – July 10, 1910
PresidentWilliam Howard Taft
Preceded bySamuel R. Gummeré
Succeeded byFred W. Carpenter
U.S. Minister to Honduras
In office
June 17, 1908 – February 6, 1909
PresidentTheodore Roosevelt
Preceded byLeslie Combs III
Succeeded byPhilip Marshall Brown
U.S. Minister to El Salvador
In office
December 31, 1907 – February 6, 1909
PresidentTheodore Roosevelt
Preceded byWilliam L. Merry
Succeeded byWilliam Heimke
Personal details
Born(1870-01-18)January 18, 1870
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedOctober 16, 1936(1936-10-16) (aged 66)
Zurich, Switzerland
Spouses
Margaret Riché Adams
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(m. 1903; died 1920)​
Agnes Page-Brown
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(m. 1922)​
ChildrenAlice Lamb Cleaves Dodge
Parent(s)Henry Cleaves Dodge
Alice Almia Lamb
Alma materHarvard University
Harvard Law School

Henry Percival Dodge (January 18, 1870 – October 16, 1936) was a United States diplomat who served as resident minister in South America, Northern Africa, and Europe for many years.

Early life

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Dodge was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 18, 1870.[1] He was a son of Henry Cleaves Dodge and Alice Almia Lamb.[2] After the death of his mother, his father remarried to Rosalie Cox of Philadelphia.[3]

He graduated with an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1892,[4] followed by an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1895.[5]

Career

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Dodge was admitted to the bar in 1895. From 1897 to 1898, he studied in France, Germany and Italy.[2] His entire career was spent at various posts in the diplomatic service, first serving at the American legation of Berlin as third secretary from 1899 to 1900, followed by second secretary from 1900 to 1902 and secretary from 1902 to 1906.[6] In 1906, he was made the first secretary of the American legation at Tokyo serving until his appointment to South America in 1907.[6]

On July 1, 1907, during a recess of the U.S. Senate, President Theodore Roosevelt concurrently appointed Dodge as the United States Minister to Honduras and El Salvador.[7] He presented his credentials in El Salvador on December 31, 1907, and in Honduras on June 17, 1908, almost a year after his initial appointment. During his term, he was a resident of San Salvador and served both countries until February 6, 1909, when he was recommissioned to El Salvador only.[8]

On May 12, 1909, President William Howard Taft appointed him as Minister to Morocco and was officially received by a representative of Sultan Abd al-Hafid on June 9, 1909. He served until he left his post on July 10, 1910.[8]

In 1910, he was chosen to be the first chief of the U.S. State Department's new Latin American bureau with the responsibility to organize a new unit.[6] President Taft appointed Dodge as the Minister to Panama on July 6, 1911, before presenting his credentials on November 11, 1911. While serving in Panama, he became chairman of the committee supervising Panama's municipal and presidential elections.[6] He continued to serve while Woodrow Wilson was president before leaving his post on June 10, 1913.[8]

During World War I, Dodge was sent to France as a special agent of the State Department to aid the American Ambassador William Graves Sharp. He also helped in the mission to rescue Americans who had been stranded in Europe because of the war.[6]

In 1917, he was sent to Corfu where Serbia's ministry of foreign affairs had established a temporary outpost.[6] After the war ended, President Wilson appointed him Minister to Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on July 17, 1919. He presented his credentials to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes on October 5, 1919. He served during Wilson's presidency, as well as all of Warren G. Harding's presidency and into Calvin Coolidge's term until he left his post on March 21, 1926, after having received his next diplomatic appointment.[8][9]

On February 23, 1926, President Coolidge appointed Dodge to his final diplomatic post as the U.S. Minister to Denmark. He presented his credentials in Denmark on August 24, 1926, and served until he left his post on March 1, 1930.[8]

Niagara Falls peace conference

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Henry Percival Dodge, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Frederick William Lehmann, and Robert F. Rose at the Niagara Falls peace conference, 1914.

In 1914, Dodge participated in the Niagara Falls peace conference, when representatives from Argentina, Brazil and Chile—the ABC Powers—successfully met in Niagara Falls, Canada, for diplomatic negotiations in order to avoid war between the United States and Mexico, during the era of the Mexican Revolution and following increasing tensions over the Tampico Affair.[10] The Tampico Affair began as a minor incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican forces loyal to the dictator General Victoriano Huerta during the faction wars phase of the Mexican Revolution, which led to a breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries.[11]

The U.S. was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. To celebrate the success of the conference, the ABC envoys and the U.S. and Mexican delegates to the conference attended a royal garden party on May 27, 1914, given by the Duke of Connaught, the Governor General of Canada, at the King Edward Hotel.[12]

Personal life

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Lake Albano, Sunset, c. 1874, by George Inness. Donated by Dodge's daughter in 1962, in his memory, to the National Gallery of Art.[13]

On February 21, 1903, Dodge was married to Margaret Riché Adams (1876–1920) at Nice, France.[14] Margaret, who was born in Mare Island, California, was a daughter of Rear Admiral James Dexter Adams and his wife, Margaret Jane Phelps (a daughter of Rear Admiral Thomas S. Phelps).[3] Together, they were the parents of Alice Lamb Cleaves Dodge (1905–1985).[15]

Margaret died by falling down an elevator shaft.[16] After her death, he married Agnes Page-Brown in Paris on April 26, 1922. Agnes was a daughter of the late architect Arthur Page-Brown (known for buildings that incorporated classical styles in the Beaux-Arts manner) and the former Lucy Pryor (daughter of Sara Agnes Rice and Justice Roger Atkinson Pryor, a Virginian newspaper editor and politician who served as a General in the Confederate Army).[17]

He died in Zurich, Switzerland on October 16, 1936. His widow died in 1952.[18]

References

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  1. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White Company. 1910. p. 428. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1914). Who's Who in America. A.N. Marquis. p. 650. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Reynolds, Marion Hobart (1924). The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds : 1630?-1923: Of Watertown, Mass., and Wethersfield, Stamford and Greenwich, Conn. Reynolds Family Association. p. 396. ISBN 9780598998835. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates. Harvard University. 1920. p. 342. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  5. ^ Thayer, William Roscoe; Castle, William Richards; Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe; et al. (1914). The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. p. 402.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Blume, Kenneth J. (2016). Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4422-7333-7. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Schoonover, Thomas David (1991). The United States in Central America, 1860–1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System. Duke University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-8223-1160-7. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Henry Percival Dodge – People – Department History". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute United States Department of State. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  9. ^ Fogelquist, Alan (2011). Politics and Economic Policy in Yugoslavia, 1918–1929. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-257-94299-2. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  10. ^ "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". The New York Times. May 21, 1914. Retrieved January 3, 2014. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...
  11. ^ C.V, DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S. A. de (January 2, 2015). "La Jornada: Victoriano Huerta: de dictador a fantasma para turistas y propiedad del estado de Texas". jornada.com.mx.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Governor General and Duchess Give Garden Party for Them in Toronto". The New York Times. May 28, 1914. Retrieved January 10, 2011. A B C envoys and American and Mexican delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, together with their wives and daughters, secretaries and attaches, invaded Toronto today to attend the royal garden party given by the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada; the Duchess of Connaught, Sir John Gibson, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, and Lady Gibson.
  13. ^ Stephenson, Christie; McClung, Patricia (1998). Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education. Getty Publications. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-89236-509-8. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  14. ^ The Harvard Graduates' Magazine. Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association. 1903. p. 643. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  15. ^ of 1892, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1912). Secretary's Report: For the Twentieth Anniversary. no. V. Fort Hill Press. p. 252. Retrieved March 9, 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ "Mrs. H. Percival Dodge Killed in Washington. Wife of the Minister to the Serbs Plunges Through Apartment Elevator Guard to Lobby". The New York Times. January 1, 1920. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  17. ^ "MINISTER DODGE TO WED AGNES BROWN; U.S. Envoy to Serbs Engaged to Granddaughter of Late Justice Roger A. Pryor. EASTER WEDDING IN PARIS Veteran Diplomat Met His Fiance While She Was Serving With Y.M. C.A. in Serbia During War". The New York Times. April 4, 1922. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  18. ^ "Mrs. H. Percival Dodge". The New York Times. February 21, 1953. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
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