Our Foreign Representatives
In this first articles Ur. Murphy j>iv«\s a
brief biography of sonuk of 1 lie IN'ortli Caro¬
linians u lio served as anibassailors. envoys,
ministers anil special representatives to
foreign nations.
B»/ WALTER (“Pete’*) MtiltPIIY
I T will probably be surprising to a
I majority of our citizens lo loam
I I b:il natives and citizens of the
Old X or ili Stale have represented
our eoiinlry as its representatives to
Russia. France, England. Spain. Por¬
tugal. Ilalv. Sweden, Greece, Ilou-
mania, Servin, Mexico, Brazil, Peru,
Persia, Costa Rica, China and Japan.
For sonic years I have been compil¬
ing a record of North Carolinians
who have beeu the foreign diplomatic
representative. of lh<- I nited Slates
lo the various eonntries of the world.
The utlinher is large, the fields in
which they served important and the
•erviee* they rendered considerable
and noteworthy. The following will he
a short sketch of those representative*,
and since Russia, England, Germany
and Franco are now very nitieh in llte
eyes of the world, 1 will lake those
countries in the above order.
RUSSIA
Churchill C. Cambrclling
Churchill C. Cambrclling — a na¬
tive of Washington. N. C., horn Oc¬
tober -4, 1780; moved to New York,
engaged in the mercantile business;
entered politics and elected as a Dem¬
ocrat to the U. S. Congress, and
served from 1821 to 1880; was ap¬
pointed as I’nited States minister to
Russia, in is 10, by President Van
Buren, in 1816 was a member of the
New York State constitutional con¬
vention; soon after retired from busi¬
ness pursuits, died in 1862 and is
buried in Urooklyn, N. Y. The name
of Cambrclling has been known to me
since my football days at the Uni-
\creity, back in 18S9, when the cap¬
tain of Carolina’s first foot hall team
was Stephen Cambrclling Rnigaw. a
native of Washington. N. a kins¬
man of
С.
C. Cambrclling, later a dis¬
tinguished judge on the Su|*erior
Court bench of North Carolina.
“Uruggy,” a* we called him, was one
of the finest follows in the world.
ENGLAND
Walter Hines Page
Two distinguished natives of North
Carolina, have hud the honor of be¬
ing Ambassa<lors to Great Britain.
Eir.t a name familiar to every citi¬
zen who knows how to read Walter
1 1 incs Page, a native of Wake ( ounty,
horn at Cary, in 1855. In 1880 he
entered the profession of journalism
a- editor of the St. Joseph, Mo.,
Hail
у
(iazclle; later he was connected
with the iYcw York World. Then lie
returned to North Carolina and be¬
came editor and one of the founders
of the Raleigh, N. C., Stale Chron¬
icle. After seeing the Chronicle estab¬
lished he went hark to New York and
became part owner of the Forum, of
which he was editor from 1890 to
I *95. Thereafter he was literary ad¬
viser of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., un¬
til 1899. From 1896 to 1899 he was
editor of the Allantic Monthly. In
1 899 he was instrumental in found¬
ing tlii- publishing house of Double-
day, Page
Л-
Co., and from 1900 to
1918 editing its magazine, the World's
Work. In 1913 he was appointed by
President Woodrow Wilson a* Am¬
bassador to Grout Britain, where he
discharged the duties of his olliee in
a innnner which elicited high praise
in all quarters ns result of the tact
and skill he displayed in dealing with
the delicate, complicated and in¬
volved problems which confronted
him in his important post at n grave
and disturbing period in the world’s
history. He resigned his post in 1918,
returned to the I’nitcd States, where
he passed away October 12, of the
same year.
Mr. Page was one of a family which
has left its imprint on North 'Caro¬
lina ill all those essential thing* which
meant its advancement, progress aud
development. His brothers — Henry,
Robert and Frank — during their life¬
time were among our most prominent,
and honored citizens: few families
rank higher in worthwhile affairs than
that of the Pages.
Robert Worth Bingham
Boh, as he was railed by his school¬
mate. at Chapel Hill, was a son of
Major Robert Bingh am. who, for so
many years was head of the famous
Bingham School, at Mebnnc, N. C.
Bob was horn in 1871. received his
schilling at the Bingham School, the
University of North Carolina. Uni¬
versity of Virginia, and the Univer¬
sity of Kentucky, entered the practice
of law in Louisville; county attorney
of Jefferson, 1904-07; mayor of Louis¬
ville. 1907 ; chancellor Jefferson Cir¬
cuit Courts; appointed hv President
Roosevelt as Ambassador Extraordi¬
nary and Plenipotentiary to Great
Britain, in 1933, and remained there
until his resignation in 1938. lie re¬
turned to the United States and died
the following year.
Boh Bingham was one of the hand¬
somest young men I ever knew, along
with four other schoolmates at Chapel
Hill : "Drew” Patterson, Billy Davies,
De Beinierc Whitaker and “Poss”
Ransom; they wen* five of the most
attractive young men whom I ever
came in contact with. At the Uni¬
versity, Bingham was captain of the
football team of 1890, a leader of so¬
cial activities and a fine all-around
elmp. At the time of his death, he was
president of the Dmisville Courier-
donrnal Company and Louisville
Times and publisher of both.
GERMANY
William Edward Dodd
William E. Dodd was horn at Au¬
burn. Johnston County. October 21,
1869; graduated from V.P.I. in 1895,
received M.S. from the same institu¬
tion in 1897, and attended the Uni¬
versity of Leipzig, in Germany, from
which he received the degree of Ph.D.
in 1900. He is the author of many
historical works and a teacher of re¬
nown ; was appointed Ambassador to
Genunuy by President Roosevelt in
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