Thomas Cleland Dawson

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Thomas Cleland Dawson (born in Hudson, Wisconsin, 1867 or July 30, 1865 depending on the source; died May 1, 1912) was a career United States diplomat. After an early career as a lawyer and a newspaper publisher, he entered the diplomatic service in 1891, when he was appointed Secretary of Legation in Brazil. He was U.S. minister and consul general to the Dominican Republic (1904‑1907), during which term he negotiated the American-Dominican Fiscal Convention of 1907; then ambassador to Colombia (1907‑1909), Chile (1909), and Panama (1910). He is the author of The South American Republics (2 vols., 1903 and 1904).


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