Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958)

Non-career appointee
State of Residence: New York

1. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Spain)
   Appointed: April 6, 1933
   Presentation of Credentials: June 1, 1933
   Termination of Mission: Had final interview February 2, 1939
   • Bowers was resident during the last part of his Ambassadorship at St. Jean de Luz in France; he left that post Jun 14, 1939, his appointment having terminated May 14, 1939. The Embassy had meanwhile been re-established in Spain on Apr 13, 1939, when H. Freeman Matthews had been received at Burgos as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim.
2. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Chile)
   Appointed: June 22, 1939
   Presentation of Credentials: September 7, 1939
   Termination of Mission: Left Chile September 2, 1953