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Terrell (EDWIN HOLLAND an American)

EDWIN HOLLAND, an American diplomatist; born in Brookville, Ind., Nov. 21, 1848; was graduated at De Pauw University in 1871; studied in Europe in 1873-1874; and practiced law in Indianapolis in 1874-1877. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions from Texas in 1880 and 1888; United States minister to Belgium in 1889-1893; conducted the negotiations TERRIER for the United States with the six powers holding possessions in the Kongo basin and secured from them the "Protocol" of Dec. 22, 1890, granting the United States and its citizens full commercial privileges, etc. He was minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Kongo K Free State in 1891; commissioner to and vice-president of the International Monetary Conference at Brussels in 1892; and was one of the Republican State Committee in 1894-1900. He died July 3, 1900.