. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER Exposition. In the same year he entered National politics and waselected RepubUcan National Committeeman from that capacity he attended the National Convention in December of the same year President McKinley appointed himUnited States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary toItaly as successor to General WilHam F. Draper of Massachusetts,and in January, 1901, he estabUshed the American Embassy inPalazzo Brancaccio, Rome, Ita
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER Exposition. In the same year he entered National politics and waselected RepubUcan National Committeeman from that capacity he attended the National Convention in December of the same year President McKinley appointed himUnited States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary toItaly as successor to General WilHam F. Draper of Massachusetts,and in January, 1901, he estabUshed the American Embassy inPalazzo Brancaccio, Rome, Italy. When leaving his post there asambassador Mr. Meyer received from His Majesty the King ofItaly, the order of St. Maurice and of St. Lazarus. In March, 1905, Mr. Meyer was transferred by President Roose-velt to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he succeeded AmbassadorRobert S. McCormack, appointed to the post in 1902, and he ablyrepresented the Government of the United States during the tryingtimes of the Russo-Japanese War; and the internal dissensions inRussia that followed the peace between the two Nations.
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