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JACOBS, JOSEPH EARLE - diplomatic service; b. Johnston, S.C., Oct. 31, 1893; s. Joseph and Nettie (Austin) J.; A.B., Coll. Charleston 1913, LL.D., 1953; m. Elizabeth McNutt, Aug 23, 1930, - Student interpreter in China and detailed to Peking, Nov. 5, 1915 - vice consul, at Foochow, 1917-18 - vice consul and interpreter, Shanghai, 1918 - American Assessor International Mixed Court, Shanghai, 1918-25 - judge Consular Court, Dist. of Shanghai, 1919-20; appointed consul, 1921 - reclassified as foreign service officer, 1924 - administrative consul at Shanghai, May-Dec 1925 - tech. adviser to American Commissioner on Extra-territorial Jurisdiction in China, 1926 - consul at Yumanfu, China, 1926-28, Shanghai, 1928-30 - rep. of American minister to China in negotiations with regard to Provisional Court, Shanghai, Dec. 1929-Feb 1930- duty Far Eastern Div., Dept. of State, 1930-34 - foreign service inspector 1935-36 - chief Office of Philippine Affairs, Dept. of State, 1936-40 - counselor of Legation, Cairo, 1940-45 - attached to polit. sect., Allied Hdqrs., Mediterranean Command, Caserta, Italy, Jan 1945 - American representative to Albania, May 1945-Nov 1946; - polit. adviser to comdg. gen. Korea, 1947-48; - career minister, U.S. foreign service, Nov. 1947 - U. S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948-49 - minister to American Embassy, Rome - spl assistant for Mutual Defense Assistant Program, 1949-55; - United States ambassador to Poland 1955-57; - Member Joint Com. of Experts on Philippine Affairs, 1937; - adviser Far Eastern affairs, 3d session Gen. Assembly UN., Paris, 1948; - Awarded Patriotic Civilian Service Medal by Dept. of Army, 1949. Address: care Department of State, Washington, D.C.
From the guide to the Joseph E. Jacobs papers, 1925-1951, (Hoover Institution Archives)
