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    Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (1892-1950)

    Non-career appointee
    State of Residence: New York

    1. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Sweden)
      Appointed: May 11, 1933
      Presentation of Credentials: August 28, 1933
      Termination of Mission: Left post June 26, 1937
    2. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Peru)
      Appointed: April 22, 1937
      Presentation of Credentials: September 13, 1937
      Termination of Mission: Left Peru April 10, 1939
    3. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russia)
      Appointed: March 23, 1939
      Presentation of Credentials: August 11, 1939
      Termination of Mission: Left post November 12, 1941
      • Commissioned to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
    4. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Turkey)
      Appointed: January 12, 1942
      Presentation of Credentials: March 10, 1942
      Termination of Mission: Left post April 2, 1945
    5. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Czechoslovakia)
      Appointed: December 20, 1944
      Presentation of Credentials: July 20, 1945
      Termination of Mission: Left post September 19, 1948
    6. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Canada)
      Appointed: August 12, 1948
      Presentation of Credentials: November 1, 1948
      Termination of Mission: Died near Ramsayville March 28, 1950
      • Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949.

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