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O'Shaughnessy (NELSON an American diplomat)

NELSON, an American diplomat, born in New York in 1876. Graduated Georgetown College in 1892, and afterward studied at Oxford University. After making a study of international law and foreign languages in Europe, he returned to the United States. He was appointed secretary of the legation of Copenhagen in OSIER 1904, and served in this position and many other legations in Europe and Affaires in Mexico, continuing during the America. In 1913 he was Chargé de period of General Huerta's rule in that country. In 1914 he was appointed special diplomatic agent at Vienna and was first secretary of the Embassy of Rio de Janeiro, in 1915. In the following year he retired from diplomatic serwork in France during the World War. vice. He took an active part in war