Born:1-Oct-1890 Birthplace: Narragansett, RI Died:15-Jan-1972 Location of death:Adelphi, MD Cause of death: Illness Remains: Buried, Church of the Redeemer Cemetery, Lower Merion Township, PA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation:Diplomat Nationality: United States Executive summary: Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece Military service: US Army (major, WWI) Father:Charles MacVeagh (US Ambassador to Japan, b. 1860, d. 1931) Mother: Fannie Davenport Rogers Wife: Margaret Charlton Lewis (m. 1917, d. 9-Sep-1947) Daughter: Margaret Ewen (b. 1920) Wife: Virginia Ferrante Coats (m. 1955)
High School:Groton School (1909) University:BA Philosophy, Harvard University University:Sorbonne (one year)
US Ambassador to Spain (1952-53) US Ambassador to Portugal (1948-52) US Ambassador to Greece (1943-47) US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1943-44) US Ambassador to South Africa (1942-43) US Ambassador to Iceland (1941-42) US Ambassador to Greece (1933-41) Dial Press (1923-) Henry Holt Publishing Company (1915-23)
Author of books: Greek Journey (1937, juvenile, with Margaret Charlton Lewis) "Dear Franklin..." Letters to President Roosevelt from Lincoln MacVeagh, U.S. Minister to South Africa, 1942-43 (1972) Ambassador MacVeagh Reports: Greece, 1933-47 (1980, ed. John O. Iatrides)
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