John Watson Foster State of Residency: Indiana Appointment: Jun 29, 1892 Entry on Duty: Jun 29, 1892 Termination of Appointment: Feb 23, 1893 Presidency: Harrison

As Secretary of State

• Signed the abortive treaty of 1893 for the annexation of Hawaii

• Commissioner for China in the negotiation of the treaty of peace 1895 with Japan

Foreign Travels

Foreign Relations of the United States:
1892, 1893

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Born: March 2, 1836
Died: November 15, 1917
Married: Mary Parke McFerson
Education: Indiana University; Harvard Law School
Occupation: Lawyer

Government Positions

• Served in the Union Army, attaining the rank of brevet brigadier genreral

• Postmaster of Evansville 1869-1873

• Chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1872

• Served as Minister to Mexico from 1873-1880

• Minister to Russia 1880-1881

• Minister to Spain 1883-1885

• Special plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity agreements in 1890-1891

• Agent of the United States in the Fur-seal Arbitration 1891-1893

• Ambassador on special Mission to Great Britain and Russia in 1897

• Agent of the United States before the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903

• Represented China at the Second Hague Conference in 1907

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