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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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| CAFFERY JEFFERSON Brazil 1941-1943 France 1944-1948 Egypt 1949-1955 * Bethell,N. Betrayed. 1984 (58) * Colby,G. Dennett,C. Thy Will Be Done. 1995 (135, 143, 148-9) * Copeland,M. The Game Player. 1989 (89, 147) * CounterSpy 1984-08 (31) * Eveland,W.C. Ropes of Sand. 1980 (104) * Godson,R. American Labor and European Politics. 1976 (100, 130, 168) * Green,S. Taking Sides. 1984 (99-100) * Hepburn,J. Farewell America. 1968 (309-10) * Kwitny,J. Endless Enemies. 1984 (340) * Lee,M. The Beast Reawakens. 1997 (133) * McCoy,A. The Politics of Heroin. 1991 (58) * 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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