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Leland Burnette Morris (February 7, 1886 – July 2, 1950) was an American diplomat. A native of Fort Clark, Texas, he was the first United States Ambassador to Iran, serving that post from 1944 to 1945. Earlier he was United States Ambassador to Iceland from 1942.
Leland Burnette Morris (February 7, 1886 – July 2, 1950) was an American diplomat. A native of Fort Clark, Texas, he was the first United States Ambassador to Iran, serving that post from 1944 to 1945. Earlier he was United States Ambassador to Iceland from 1942.
The spring before, in 1942, her first westbound voyage during WWII had carried U.S. diplomats Leland Morris and George Kennan, and many others, from Lisbon to New York City. Wikimedia
The Embassy of the United States of America in Berlin ( German: Botschaft der Vereinigten Staaten in Berlin) is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Federal Republic of Germany. It started in 1797, with the appointment of John Quincy Adams to Berlin, the capital of Prussia.
Leland Burnette Morris (1886–1950) Career Foreign Service Officer. State of Residence: Pennsylvania. Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Germany) Began Service: October 1940. Ended Service: Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Iceland)
WASHINGTON, July 4--Leland Burnette Morris, veteran State Department figure and first United States Ambassador to Iran, died here on Sunday in George Washington University Hospital.
Anne C. Coleman. . ( m. 1925) . Education. Harvard College. Harvard Law School. Leland B. Harrison (April 25, 1883 – June 6, 1951) was a United States diplomat. He held several high appointments in the foreign service, most notably as U.S. minister to Switzerland throughout World War II.
