Jefferson Caffery

Jefferson Caffery ( born December 1, 1886 in Lafayette, Louisiana; † 13 April 1974) was the ambassador to the United States in El Salvador ( 1926-1928 ), Colombia ( 1928-1933 ), Cuba ( 1934-1937 ), Brazil ( 1937-1944), France (1944-1949) and Egypt ( 1949-1955 ).

Political career

Jefferson Caffery began his career in international diplomacy in 1911, under the presidency of William Howard Taft, when he joined as second secretary of the office in Caracas, Venezuela in the diplomatic service of the U.S. State Department.

He traveled in 1916 to Persia, now Iran, after the First World War to Paris, along with President Wilson's peace negotiators and then to Washington DC in order to arrange details for the King of Belgium and of the Prince of Wales visit. In 1920 he was named deputy to the ambassador in Madrid. 1933 Caffery briefly served as Assistant Secretary of State under Cordell Hull. During his career, he also served in diplomatic positions of lower rank in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Persia, Sweden and Venezuela.

Overall Caffery worked 43 years, under the presidency of five U.S. Presidents, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, in the diplomatic service of the U.S. State Department.

In 1971, Caffery of the Foreign Service Cup was awarded by his colleagues. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards - considered, including the Leatre Medal of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1954. 1949 he was awarded by the French President, the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor awarded.

Personal

Caffery was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. The elementary and middle school, he gained by private lessons. He was a member of the first graduating class of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also joined the Tulane University in New Orleans in 1906 with the degree of Bachelor from.

While he was in Rio de Janeiro married Jefferson Caffery 1937, born Gertrude McCarthy from Evansville, Indiana. They had no children. In 1955 he went with his wife retired and settled in Rome. He was an honorary private Chamberlain of the Popes Pius XII. , John XXIII. and Paul VI .. 1973 returned Caffery, shortly before the death of his wife, returned to Lafayette.

The Cafferys are buried behind the St. John's Cathedral in Lafayette. A portion of Louisiana Highway 3073 in Lafayette has been named in memory of Ambassador Caffery Parkway him as.

Swell

  • A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography: Jefferson Caffery; Louisiana Historical Association, New Orleans, ISBN 0940984377; page 141
  • Philip F. Dur: Jefferson Caffery of Louisiana: Highlights of His Career, Part I: 1911-1933. In: Louisiana Historical Association (ed.): Louisiana History. XV, 1974.
  • Philip F. Dur: Jefferson Caffery of Louisiana: Highlights of His Career, Part II: 1933-1944. In: Louisiana Historical Association (ed.): Louisiana History. XV, 1974.
  • Robert Foster Corrigan: An Appreciation of a diplomat. In: American Foreign Service Association (ed.): Foreign Service Journal., Washington November 1967.
  • United States Ambassador to El Salvador
  • United States Ambassador to Colombia
  • Ambassador of the United States in Cuba
  • United States Ambassador to Brazil
  • United States Ambassador to France
  • United States Ambassador in Egypt
  • Lawyer ( United States)
  • Member of the Legion of Honour ( Grand Cross )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1886
  • Died in 1974
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