Porter, Horace, 1837-1921
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American general and ambassador.
American army officer and railroad official.
Son of Pennsylvania Governor and graduate of West Point, he was an aide de camp to General Grant during Civil War and remained in the Army as an aide to Grant and General Sherman until resigning in 1873.
Civil War Union General and aide de camp to General Grant; Vice President of the Pullman Company; Amassador to France, 1897-1905; representative to Hague Peace Conference; author of "Campaigning with Grant."
U.S. Army officer, railroad official, and diplomat.
Horace Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1837. He was the son of David Rittenhouse Porter, a former governor of Pennsylvania, and Josephine McDermett Porter.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) in 1860, and served on the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor at Chickamauga, and was breveted twice. After the war, he worked for several railroads, and was made ambassador to France in 1897. In 1905, towards the end of his ambassadorship, he oversaw the disinterment of John Paul Jones' body from its grave in Paris, and its reinterment at the U.S. Naval Academy. Porter died in New York City on May 29, 1921.
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Diplomatic and consular service, American
Diplomatic and consular service, American
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Santiago, Battle of, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 1898
World War, 1914-1918
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France
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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Mississippi
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France
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France
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New York (State)
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Montfaucon (Meuse, France)
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