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Morgenthau

HENRY, appointed in 1920 Ambassador to Mexico by Presi- 1920 Ambassador to Mexico by President Wilson; born dent Wilson; born in Germany in 1856 United States when he was nine years old. After graduating from Columbia University he entered the MORISCOS law firm of Lachman, Morgenthau, and Goldsmith in 1879.

After thirty years as Wilson in 1913 appointed Morgenthau a New York business man, President World War placed the business of the Ambassador to Constantinople . The Allied nations in Turkey in his hands.

No less than nine nations, in recalling representatives from Constantinople, made Morgenthau responsible for the the performance of this task he showed lives and property of their nationals. In great energy and tact. He returned to the United States in 1917 when the United States severed relations with Turkey. of persons found dead are exposed in or-

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