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Occupation. Diplomat. 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.
A German official announced dispatch of a car to collect Chargé Leland B. Morris. Once ushered into Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop’s grandiose Wilhelmstrasse office, Morris remained standing while the Nazi’s top diplomat, “striking ferocious attitudes,” delivered a declaration of war, “screaming at him, ‘Your President has ...
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)
While Taylor was waiting for the bus, she was accosted by Morris Leland, a 22-year-old ex-convict, who asked her to accompany him to a spot near the Willamette River and the St. Johns Bridge, a short distance from what is now the Cathedral Park neighborhood.
Leland B. Morris; George F. Kennan; Edwin Allan Lightner (head of U.S. Mission Berlin, 1959–1963) Harry J. Gilmore (last head of U.S. Mission Berlin, became the first Principal Officer of Embassy Office, Berlin in October 1990) Richard M. Miles (Principal Officer of Embassy Office, Berlin, 1991–1992) Controversies
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. He...
