Ellis O. Briggs

Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (December 1, 1899 – February 21, 1976) was an American diplomat who served as Ambassador to seven different countries over the course of his career.^[1]

Early life and family

Briggs was born in Massachusetts to James Briggs and Lucy Hill Briggs, and was educated at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1921. He married Lucy Barnard in 1928. They had two children; Lucy in 1930, and Everett (who also went on to a career as an American diplomat^[2]) in 1934.^[3]

Diplomatic career

The following table is adapted from the website of the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State.^[4]

Position	Date appointed	Presentation of credentials	Termination of mission	Comments
United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic	March 21, 1944	June 3, 1944	January 14, 1945
United States Ambassador to Uruguay	July 3, 1947	August 21, 1947	August 6, 1949
United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia	September 1, 1949	November 8, 1949	August 27, 1952
United States Ambassador to South Korea	August 25, 1952	November 25, 1952	April 12, 1955	Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on July 28, 1953, after confirmation.
United States Ambassador to Peru	March 24, 1955	March 27, 1955	June 5, 1956
United States Ambassador to Brazil	May 29, 1956	July 24, 1956	May 2, 1959
United States Ambassador to Greece	April 8, 1959	July 15, 1959	February 1, 1962
Career Ambassador	June 24, 1960	N/A	N/A
United States Ambassador to Spain	N/A	N/A	N/A	Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.

Retirement and publications

President John F. Kennedy nominated Briggs for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain. However, due to illness, Briggs was not able to accept that post, and retired from the State Department in 1962.^[5]

Briggs was the author of several memoirs and other works, including:

Shots Heard Round the World: An Ambassador's Hunting Adventures on Four Continents, a memoir written in 1957, while still with the State Department
Farewell to Foggy Bottom: The Recollections of a Career Diplomat, another memoir, this one written in 1964, after his retirement
Anatomy of Diplomacy: The Origin and Execution of American Foreign Policy, a 1968 book on international affairs
Proud Servant: Memoirs of a Career Ambassador, another memoir, this one published posthumously in 1998

He died in 1976 in Gainesville, Georgia.

References

↑ "Examples of Excellence: Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976)". U.S. Diplomacy: An Online Exploration of Diplomatic History and Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
↑ "Career diplomat was literally born to be a U.S. ambassador". New London, Connecticut: The Day. 25 September 1984. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
↑ "Ellis O. Briggs". NNDB. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
↑ "Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899–1976)". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
↑ "Examples of Excellence: Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976)". U.S. Diplomacy: An Online Exploration of Diplomatic History and Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 8 February 2016.

United States Ambassadors to Brazil

Chargé d'affaires	Raguet Tudor Brown Hunter

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Hunter Proffit Wise Tod Schenck Trousdale Meade Webb Monroe (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) Blow Partridge Hilliard Osborn Jarvis Adams Conger TThompson Conger Bryan DThompson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	DThompson Griscom Dudley Morgan Gibson Caffery Berle Pawley Johnson Kemper Dunn Briggs Luce Cabot Gordon Tuthill Elbrick Rountree Crimmins Sayre Motley Asencio Shlaudman Melton Levitsky Harrington Orozco (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) Hrinak Danilovich Chicola (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) Sobel Shannon Ayalde

United States Ambassadors to Korea

Envoy	Foote Foulk Parker Foulk Dinsmore Heard Sill Allen Morgan

Ambassador	Muccio Briggs Lacy Dowling McConaughy Berger Brown Porter Habib Sneider Gleysteen Walker Lilley Gregg Laney Bosworth Hubbard Hill Vershbow Stephens Kim Lippert

United States Ambassadors to Uruguay

Minister Resident	Asboth Worthington Kirk Stevens Caldwell

Chargé d'Affaires	Caldwell Williams Bacon

Minister Resident	Bacon Maney

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Maney Stuart Finch O'Brien Morgan Grevstad Jeffery Philip Grant-Smith Harrison Wright Lay Dawson Wilson

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Dawson McGurk Briggs Ravndal Rodden McIntosh Patterson Woodward Sparks Coerr Hoyt Robert M. Sayre Adair Siracusa Pezzulo Lane Smith (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) Aranda Wilkey Brown Dodd Ashby Silverstein Baxter David D. Nelson Lloyd (Chargé d'Affaires ad interim) Reynoso

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