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The American Consul

Since 1776, extraordinary men and women have represented the United States abroad under widely varying circumstances. What they did and how and why they did it remain little known to their compatriots. In 1995, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) and DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals, created the Diplomats and Diplomacy book series to increase public knowledge and appreciation of the professionalism of American diplomats and their involvement in world history. The second edition of Charles Stuart Kennedy's history of the U.S. consular service, the definitive work on the subject, is the fifty-fifth volume in the series.

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Charles T. Cross, Born a Foreigner: A Memoir of the American Presence in Asia

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Hermann F. Eilts, Early American Diplomacy in the Near and Far East: The Diplomatic and Personal History of Edmund Q. Roberts (1784–1836)

Stephen H. Grant, Peter Strickland: New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal

Michael P. E. Hoyt, Captive in the Congo: A Consul's Return to the Heart of Darkness

Dennis C. Jett, American Ambassadors: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Diplomats

David D. Newsom, Witness to a Changing World

Richard B. Parker, Uncle Sam in Barbary: A Diplomatic History

Nicholas Platt, China Boys: How U.S. Relations with the PRC Began and Grew

James W. Spain, In Those Days: A Diplomat Remembers

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, ed., China Confidential: American Diplomats and Sino-American Relations, 1945–1996

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The American

Consul

A History of the United States

Consular Service, 1776–1924

Revised 2nd Edition

Charles Stuart Kennedy

An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book

Washington, DC

Copyright © 2015 by Charles Stuart Kennedy

New Academia Publishing 2015

First edition, The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular Service, 1776–1914 (Greenwood, 1990)

The views and opinions in this book are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, DACOR, Inc., or the Government of the United States.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-9864-3535-5 (electronic)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015930109

ISBN 978-0-9906939-7-0 paperback (alk. paper)

Praise

“This book is both a historical record and an introduction to the world of American consuls. The description of the early years of the Republic, with its raffish, sometimes corrupt consular personalities and its first glimmerings of the political spoils system, grows in significance when one considers the modern scandal of political-appointee ambassadors.”

—Diego C. Asencio, former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs

“Charles Stuart Kennedy has produced a well-researched, comprehensively documented and highly readable history of U.S. consuls and the consular service. The scholar, the practitioner or even the young American bent on public service will find The American Consul to be a riveting read.”

—Maura Ann Harty, former Assistant Secretary of State for ConsularAffairs