PoliticalGraveyard.com
South Africa
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission toSouth Africa
| RalphJ. Totten (Minister 1929-37)LeoJ. Keena (Minister 1937-42)LincolnMacVeagh (Minister 1942-43)ThomasHolcomb (Minister 1944-48)NorthWinship (Minister 1948-49)NorthWinship (Ambassador 1949)JohnG. Erhardt (Ambassador 1950-51)WaldemarJ. Gallman (Ambassador 1951-54)EdwardT. Wailes (Ambassador 1954-56)HenryA. Byroade (Ambassador 1956-59)PhilipK. Crowe (Ambassador 1959-61)JosephC. Satterthwaite (Ambassador 1961-65)WilliamM. Rountree (Ambassador 1965-70)JohnG. Hurd (Ambassador 1970-75)WilliamG. Bowdler (Ambassador 1975-78)WilliamBrockway Edmondson (Ambassador 1978-81)HermanW. Nickel (Ambassador 1982-86)EdwardJ. Perkins (Ambassador 1986-89)WilliamL. Swing (Ambassador 1989-92)PrincetonNathan Lyman (Ambassador 1992-95)JamesA. Joseph (Ambassador 1995-99)DelanoEugene Lewis, Jr. (Ambassador 1999-2001)CameronR. Hume (Ambassador 2001-04)JendayiFrazer (Ambassador 2004-05)EricM. Bost (Ambassador 2006-07)PatrickGaspard (Ambassador 2013-16) |
| "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of apolitical graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 | ![]() |
| The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260politicians, living and dead. | ||
| Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; seeFeistv. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this siteare 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe toconstitutefair use under applicable copyright law. Wherepossible, each image is linked to its online source. However,requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from thissite are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection andarrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum.(4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under aCreative CommonsLicense. | ||
| What is a "political graveyard"? SeePoliticalDictionary;UrbanDictionary. | ||
| Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained byLawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address isThe Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted byHDLmi.com. —The Political Graveyard opened onJuly 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onFebruary 17, 2025. | ||