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Richard Olney
Secretary of State,
Term of Appointment:
06/08/1895 to
03/05/1897
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- Born in Oxford, Massachusetts, September 15, 1835;
- Graduated from Brown University in 1856 (A.M.) and from Harvard Law School in 1858;
- Admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Boston, Massachusetts;
- Married Agnes Park Thomas in 1861;
- Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874;
- Attorney General in President Cleveland's Cabinet 1893-1895;
- Commissioned Secretary of State June 8, 1895, entered upon his duties June 10, 1895, and served until March 5, 1897;
- As Secretary of State, induced the British Government to submit to arbitration its dispute with Venezuela over the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and insisted on the protection of American lives and property and on reparation for injuries in the disorders then prevailing in Cuba, China, and Turkey;
- Resumed the practice of law;
- Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1900-1908;
- American member of the Permanent International Commission under the Bryan Jusserand Treaty of 1914 with France 1915-1917;
- Died in Boston April 8, 1917.
Released on July 15, 2003
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