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Portrait of U.S. Secretary of State John W. Foster

John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836–November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat.

Born in Evansville, Indiana he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the Evansville Daily Journal from 1865 to 1869 Thereafter he was the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1873-1880), the U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1880-1881) and the U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1883-1885). In 1892 and 1893 he served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. He also helped the Qing in drafting the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 as a legal consultant and commissioner.

One of his grandsons was John Foster Dulles, another U.S. Secretary of State.

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Preceded by:
James G. Blaine 		United States Secretary of State Succeeded by:
Walter Q. Gresham




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