"US Ambassador" Jefferson Caffery Signed Envelope Dated 1959 for Sale

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"US Ambassador" Jefferson Caffery Signed Envelope Dated 1959 For Sale

Up for sale "U.S. Ambassador" Jefferson Caffery Hand Signed Envelope Dated 1959.

1, 1886 – April 13, 1974) was an American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to El was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to

Charles Duval Caffery and Mary Catherine (née Parkerson)

Caffery. He was privately educated in primary and

secondary school. He was a member of the first graduating class of Southwestern

Louisiana Industrial Institute, which later became the University

of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also graduated with a bachelor's

degree from Tulane University in

1906. He was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1909.

Caffery was the cousin of U.S. Senator Donelson Caffery and U.S. Representative Patrick T. Caffery.

Caffery launched his career of international diplomacy in 1911 when he entered the Foreign Service as

second secretary of the legation in Caracas in 1911

during the William Howard Taft administration.

He traveled to Iran (then named Persia) in 1916,

to Paris after World War I with President Wilson’s peacemakers, then to Washington,

D.C., to arrange details for visits by the King of Belgium and the Prince of Wales. In 1920, he was named second-in-command at

the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. In 1933, Caffery briefly served as assistant secretary

of state under Cordell Hull.

Throughout his career he also worked in low ranking diplomatic posts and Venezuela.

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