Monday 1 September 2008

Jefferson Caffery

Jefferson Caffery - U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt



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Jefferson Caffery (December 1, 1886 – April 13, 1974) served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador (1926-1928), Colombia (1928-1933), Cuba (1934-1937), Brazil (1937-1944), France (1944-1949), and Egypt (1949-1955).

Career

Caffery launched his career of international diplomacy in 1911 when he entered the Foreign Service as second secretary of the legation in Caracas in 1911 during the William Howard Taft administration.

He traveled to Persia (now Iran) in 1916, to Paris after World War I with President Wilson’s peacemakers, then to Washington, D.C., to arrange details for visits by the King of Belgium and the Prince of Wales. In 1920, he was named second-in-command at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. In 1933, Caffery briefly served as assistant secretary of state under Cordell Hull. Throughout his career he also had worked in lower-ranking diplomatic posts in Belgium, Germany, Greece, Japan, Persia, Sweden, and Venezuela.

In total, he worked 43 years in foreign service under five presidents, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower.

He was awarded the Foreign Service Cup in 1971 by his fellow Foreign Service officers. He held several honorary degrees and decorations, including the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, in 1954. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor from the president of France in 1949 and the Order of the Cordon of the Republic from the president of Egypt in 1955.

Personal life

Caffery was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Charles Duval Caffery and the former Mary Catherine Parkerson. He was privately educated in primary and secondary school. He was a member of the first graduating class of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then called the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute). He also graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1906. He was admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1909.

According to one account, Caffery was bisexual. The source reports that in the 1930s William Wieland, a U.S. State Department official known in Cuba as Arturo Montenegro, was intimate with Caffery and his predecessor Sumner Welles.[1]

Caffery married the former Gertrude McCarthy of Evansville, Indiana, in 1937, while in Rio de Janeiro. They had no children. He retired with his wife in 1955 to reside in Rome, where he was the honorary private chamberlain to Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI. He returned to Lafayette in 1973, shortly before Mrs. Caffery's death.

The Cafferys are buried behind St. John’s Cathedral in Lafayette. A portion of Louisiana Highway 3073 in Lafayette is named Ambassador Caffery Parkway in his memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Caffery
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Jefferson Caffery

Born: 1-Dec-1886
Birthplace: Lafayette, LA
Died: 13-Apr-1974
Location of death: Lafayette, LA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, St. John's Cemetery, Lafayette, LA

Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Diplomat

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Ambassador to Egypt, France, Brazil, Cuba

Father: Charles Duval Caffery
Mother: Mary Catherine Parkerson
Wife: Gertrude McCarthy (m. 20-Nov-1937)

University: Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute

US Ambassador to Egypt (1949-55)
US Ambassador to France (1944-49)
US Ambassador to Brazil (1937-44)
US Ambassador to Cuba (1934-37)
US Ambassador to Colombia (1928-33)
US Ambassador to El Salvador (1926-28)

French Legion of Honor
Knights of Malta

http://www.nndb.com/people/426/000130036/
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Jefferson Caffery. Artifacts

ARTIFACTS: MEDALS
[...]
2-2 Medal, Holy See Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross,
Mrs. Caffery, 3/2/1957 [22]
1 medal/bow, 1 bow in burgandy case with gold trim
Medal: gold with orange/yellow/white bow
Side 1: PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE,, PRID,
CAL, IAN, 1888
Side 2: LEO XIII P. M. ANN. X
Bow: miniature verson of bow attached to medal

2-3 Medal, Holy See Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross,
Ambassador Caffery, 3/2/1957 [23]
1 medal/bow in burgandy case with no trim
Medal: gold with orange/yellow/white bow
Side 1: LEO XIII P. M. ANN. X
Side 2: PRO ECCLESIA ET PONTIFICE, PRID,
CAL, IAN, 1888

[NOTE: The medals in 2-2 and 2-3 are identical, but reversed]

2-4 Medals, Holy See Order of Piux IX Grand Cross, 7/8/1960 [20]
1 medal/ribbon, 1 medal, no rosette in burgandy case
Medal 1: gold with blue/black/white enamel,
blue/red ribbon
Side 1: PIUS IX, VIRTUTI ET MERITO
Side 2: ANNO MDGGGXLVII
Medal 2: gold/silver with blue/black/white enamel
Side 1: PIUS IX, VIRTUIT ET MERITO
Side 2: ANNO MDGGGXLVII
[...]
2-7 Medals, Rome Order of Malta Knighthood, awarded 7/25/1957
[27]
1 large medal/ribbon, 1 small medal/ribbon in red case
Medal 1: gold with white/red/enamel, black ribbon
Side 1: red shield with white cross, gold
crown and white 8-point star
Side 2: gold crown and white 8-point star
Medal 2: miniature version of Medal 1

http://library.louisiana.edu/Spec/COL/045artifacts.shtml (Proof Positive)

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_CAFFERY_JEFFERSON_
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CAFFERY JEFFERSON
Brazil 1941-1943 France 1944-1948 Egypt 1949-1955

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* Lee,M. The Beast Reawakens. 1997 (133)
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* Pisani,S. The CIA and the Marshall Plan. 1991 (87, 103)
* State Dept. United States Chiefs of Mission 1778-1973. 1973 (48)

pages cited this search: 22

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