Richard Olney

Richard Olney ( born September 15, 1835 in Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † April 8, 1917 in Boston ) was an American politician and 1895-1897 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States. Under President Grover Cleveland he was previously employed even as a Minister of Justice.

Olney studied law at Brown University and Harvard Law School before he started in 1859 to practice as a lawyer and then reached a high position within the legal profession. In 1874 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts for the Democrats.

In March 1893, Olney Attorney General of the United States. During the so-called Pullman Pullman strike in Chicago in 1894, he ordered that the district attorneys of the federal courts should obtain enforcement orders to restrain the workers from violence. His actions set the precedent for a " governance by interlocutory order " is ( " government by injunction "). Olney recommended besides the use of federal troops to quell the unrest, as the Government would prevent impact on the postal and railway traffic between the states.

After the death of Foreign Minister Walter Q. Gresham Olney was his successor on 10 June 1895. Shortly after his appointment, he declared the U.S. diplomatic missions to embassies, after they had previously ranked as ambassadors of protocol. Thus, the right to equality was stressed with the other world powers. Due to its position in the border dispute between Britain and Venezuela, and his correspondence with Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, he tightened the interpretation of the so-called Monroe Doctrine, which had declared the American continent to the sphere of interest of the United States.

After the end of the term of President Cleveland in 1897 Olney again worked as a lawyer.

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