Ambassadors of the United States to Egypt - Alfred Atherton, Anne W. Patterson, Bert Fish, Daniel C. Kurtzer, David Welch, Edward C. Little, Edward S. (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Alfred Atherton, Anne W. Patterson, Bert Fish, Daniel C. Kurtzer, David Welch, Edward C. Little, Edward S. Walker, Jr., Edwin de Leon, Eugene Schuyler, Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., Frank G. Wisner, G. Frederick Reinhardt, Henry A. Byroade, Hermann Eilts, Jefferson Caffery, John Alexander Anderson, John W. Riddle, Lucius D. Battle, Margaret Scobey, Nicholas A. Veliotes, Raymond A. Hare, Richard Nolte, Robert Pelletreau, Somerville Pinkney Tuck, United States Ambassador to Egypt, William Marion Jardine. Excerpt: Eugene Schuyler (Ithaca, New York, February 26, 1840 Venice, Italy, July 16, 1890) was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi. He was the first American diplomat to visit Russian Central Asia, and as American Consul General in Constantinople he played a key role in publicizing Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria in 1876 during the April Uprising. He was the first American Minister to Romania and Serbia, and U.S. Minister to Greece. Eugene Schuyler was the son of George W. Schuyler, a drugstore owner in Ithaca, New York who later was elected New York State Treasurer. His father's ancestors, of Dutch descent, included a general in George Washington's army. His mother, Matilda Scribner, was half-sister of Charles Scribner, the founder of the famous American publishing house. At the age of fifteen Schuyler entered Yale College, where he studied languages, literature and philosophy. He graduated with honors in 1859 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He became one of the first graduate students at Yale in 1860. He and two other students were the first Americans to receive doctorates in philosophy from an American university. In 1860 Schuyler became an assistant to Noah Porter, a prominent linguistician and literary figure, in the revision of Webster's Dictionary, the first dictionary of American English. In 1862 Schuyler began to study law at Yale Law School, and received his law degree in 1863 from Columbia Law School. He began practicing law in New York, but did not find it very interesting. Instead he began to write, becoming a contributor to The Nation magazine. He continued to write for The Nation until the end of his life. In September 1863 a Russian naval squadron made a long stay in New York harbor, hoping to escape capture by the British Navy in the event of a war between Britain an