Herbert Wolcott Bowen

Cipriano Castro with Ambassador Bowen 1903

Herbert Wolcott Bowen (29 February 1856 – 29 May 1927) was an American diplomat and poet. He served as ambassador to Venezuela, and consul-general in Spain and Persia.


Personal life

Bowen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1856, and graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Yale University in 1878 and Columbia Law School in 1881.[1] Bowen published several volumes of poetry.[2]

Bowen married Augusta Floyd Yingut on 26 February 1895 at a high society wedding in New York performed by Roman Catholic archbishop Michael Corrigan. [3]

Professional life

After law school, Bowen practiced law in New York City specializing in international law. In 1895 he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the American consul-general at Barcelona, Spain, where he served until 1899, and then consul-general in Persia where he served from 1899 to 1901.[4] Bowen was appointed as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Venezuela in 1901, the following year he negotiated the release of all foreign nationals from the revolutionaries during the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 under then dictator Cipriano Castro. He was dismissed in 1905 for impropriety.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Minister Bowen's Career". Lock Haven Express (Lock Haven, Pennsylvania). 12 May 1905. p. 2, column 2.
  2. ↑ "Herbert W. Bowen, United States Minister to Venezuela, is a Trained Diplomat and a Scholar of Note". Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi). 6 February 1903. p. 3, column5.
  3. ↑ "Weddings of the Day: Herbert Wolcott Bowen Marries Augusta Floyd Yingut at a Floral Altar". The World (New York). 27 February 1895. p. 7, column 3.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Barnhart, Clarence L., ed. (1954). "Bowen, Herbert Wolcott". New Century Cyclopedia of Names, Volume One, A – Emin Pasha. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 606.