Cavendish Wells Cannon - People - Department History
Cavendish Wells Cannon (1895–1962)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Utah
State of Residence: Utah
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Appointed: April 10, 1947
Presentation of Credentials: July 14, 1947
Termination of Mission: Left post on October 19, 1949- Commissioned to Yugoslavia.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Syria)
Appointed: September 20, 1950
Presentation of Credentials: October 30, 1950
Termination of Mission: Left post on May 8, 1952- Commissioned to the Republic of Syria.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Portugal)
Appointed: March 13, 1952
Presentation of Credentials: June 2, 1952
Termination of Mission: Left post on August 1, 1953 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Greece)
Appointed: July 28, 1953
Presentation of Credentials: September 2, 1953
Termination of Mission: Left Greece July 28, 1956 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Morocco)
Appointed: July 21, 1956
Presentation of Credentials: October 6, 1956
Termination of Mission: Relinquished charge July 1, 1958