Alexander Robert Lawton - People - Department History
Alexander Robert Lawton (1818–1896)
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State of Residence: Georgia
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Austria)
Appointed: April 15, 1887
Presentation of Credentials: August 25, 1887
Termination of Mission: Presented recall on May 15, 1889- Commissioned to Austria-Hungary. Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on December 15, 1887, after confirmation.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Russia)
- Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.