George Howard Earle III -
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George Howard Earle III (1890–1974)
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Non-career appointee
State of Residence: Pennsylvania
State of Residence: Pennsylvania
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Austria)
Appointed: July 24, 1933
Presentation of Credentials: September 27, 1933
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 25, 1934- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on January 15, 1934, after confirmation.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Bulgaria)
Appointed: February 14, 1940
Presentation of Credentials: April 2, 1940
Termination of Mission: Bulgaria declared war on the United States on December 13, 1941- Earle left post late in December 1941, arriving at Istanbul (en route to the United States) on December 27, 1941.