Ambrose Dudley Mann
Ambrose Dudley Mann ( born April 26, 1801 in Hanover Courthouse, Hanover County, Virginia; † November 15, 1889 in Paris) was an American diplomat, First Assistant Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States commissioner for the Confederate States of America and consul and honorary citizen in and of Bremen.
Biography
He studied, among others, at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Afterwards, he was from 1842 to about 1847 American consul in Bremen. He led negotiations on trade agreements in 1845 with the Kingdom of Hanover, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin and 1847 with all other German states except Prussia. In 1849 he became a U.S. representative in Hungary and 1850 in Switzerland, with which he negotiated a treaty.
1853 Mann was appointed as the first Assistant Secretary of State Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States. He took this second highest office in the Ministry until 1855; this was at the time of U.S. President Franklin Pierce and Secretary of State William L. Marcy.
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), a man sat on behalf of the Confederate States, especially for the development of the material interests of the southern states. In 1861 he was the Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his Secretary of State Robert Toombs appointed the first Commissioner of the Confederate (Ambassador ) in Europe, soon he was then responsible for Belgium and the Vatican.
Man lived after his active service in France with an apartment in Paris and a country house in Chantilly. He was buried in the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris.
Honors
- Man was made an honorary citizen of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for his contribution to the establishment of the first U.S. postal service to Bremerhaven in 1847.
- Assistant Secretary of State
- Diplomat of the United States
- Honorary citizen of Bremen
- Americans
- Born in 1801
- Died in 1889
- Man