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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.
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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 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
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Leland B. Morris, the Consul General at Alexandria, was the American chargé d'affaires in Germany at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After the United States entered into World War II, Morris and his staff, including George Kennan (who would later work with Fish in Lisbon), were detained for several months.
Scope and Contents The Leland B. Morris Papers include correspondence, a State Department questionnaire, a receipt dating from 1941-1942, and a letter to Leland B. Morris' wife, Marie, dated 1952. Morris' correspondence primarily concerns Germany in 1941.
Leland Burnette Morris (1886-1950) was an American diplomat. In the early 1920s, Morris served in the American Consular service in Saloniki, Greece. (See the George Horton Papers, which includes correspondence from Morris to Horton in 1923.)
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 was...
