Thomas Cleland Dawson

Thomas Cleland Dawson ( born July 30, 1865 in Hudson, Wisconsin, † May 1, 1912 in Washington DC) was an American diplomat and jurist.

Life

His parents were Allan Dawson and Anna Cleland. His father was born in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. His son Allan ( born February 16, 1903 in Washington, DC; † October 15, 1949 ) was from 1926 to 1927 Vice Consul of the United States in Hamburg.

Thomas Cleland Dawson took an apprenticeship at Hanover College and Cincinnati Law School, to the attorney. He moved a newspaper and was from 1891 to 1894 employees of the Attorney General in Iowa. He entered the diplomatic service in 1897 in a. There he was employed as a troubleshooter. In 1891 he was counselor of legation at the U.S. Ambassador in Rio de Janeiro. Dawson married in 1897 Luisa Guerra Duval from Porto Alegre.

From 1904 to 1907 he was United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to the President Carlos Felipe Morales and Ramón Cáceres. 1906, 1907, the mood in the Dominican Republic was applied. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proposed an arrangement under which the customs administration should be placed under U.S. control that negotiated Dawson. 1907 a trade agreement between the governments of the United States and the Dominican Republic has been completed.

From 1907 to 1909 he was U.S. Ambassador to Colombia. In 1909 he was ambassador to Chile. As part of its Engagementes for collecting debts for Alsop & Co in 1909 he left demonstratively his ambassadorship with the Government of Chile.

In 1910 he was ambassador to Panama.

Negotiations with Nicaragua in 1910

Dawson came on 18 October 1910 the negotiations on the future governments of Nicaragua and their role on a U.S. warship in the port of Corinto. On October 27, 1910 signed Nicaraguan government representatives: Juan José Estrada, the foreign minister Adolfo Díaz, Minister of War Luís Mena Solórzano and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas a bundle of unilateral commitments, which are commonly known as Pactos Dawson, although Thomas C. Dawson has not signed it.

Negotiations to Honduras 1911

In a rebellion against Miguel R. Dávila, which led to a U.S. intervention, Dawson 1911 was a mediator between the warring parties in the bay of Puerto Cortés on the armored cruiser USS Tacoma (CL -20).

Publications

• The South American Republics GP Putnam 's Sons 1910