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- Minister Resident (Japan)
Appointed: October 12, 1861
Presentation of Credentials: May 17, 1862
Termination of Mission: Left Japan April 28, 1865- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after
Robert Hewson Pruyn (1815-1882)
Non-career appointee
State of Residence: New York