Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. - People - Department History
Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. (1889–1973)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: California
State of Residence: California
- Concurrent Appointments
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Iran)
Appointed: July 7, 1939
Presentation of Credentials: December 18, 1940
Termination of Mission: Left post on December 12, 1943- Also accredited to Afghanistan; resident at Tehran.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Afghanistan)
Appointed: February 16, 1940
Presentation of Credentials: May 19, 1941
Termination of Mission: Superseded on July 25, 1942- Also accredited to Iran; resident at Tehran.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Iran)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Iceland)
Appointed: March 21, 1944
Presentation of Credentials: June 14, 1944
Termination of Mission: Left post on January 21, 1946- Reaccredited when Iceland became a republic; presented new credentials on August 10, 1944.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Sweden)
Appointed: August 1, 1946
Presentation of Credentials: January 3, 1947
Termination of Mission: Left post on October 6, 1947 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Afghanistan)
Appointed: April 21, 1949
Presentation of Credentials: August 16, 1949
Termination of Mission: Left post on January 19, 1951