In 1986, US Foreign Service Office Walter Burges Smith created a database of US diplomats and consuls who served between 1776 and 1865 and wrote a book interpreting the results and commenting on the source base.<\/p>\n
Here’s the full citation:<\/p>\n
Walter Burges Smith, America\u2019s Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865: A Geographic and Biographic Directory of the Foreign Service from the Declaration of Independence to the End of the Civil War<\/i> (Arlington VA: Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, 1986).<\/p>\n
The book is available as a free PDF via the Hathi Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1986, US Foreign Service Office Walter Burges Smith created a database of US diplomats and consuls who served between 1776 and 1865 and wrote a book interpreting the results and commenting on the source base. Here’s the full citation: Walter Burges Smith, America\u2019s Diplomats and Consuls of 1776-1865: A Geographic and Biographic Directory of … Continue reading Walter Burges Smith’s Dataset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1821,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16862,286857,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-fellow-travelers","category-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/nphelps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}