Franklin Mott Gunther - People - Department History
Franklin Mott Gunther (1885–1941)
NOTE TO READERS
Updates to the Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission database are currently suspended. For information about the Department’s current and recent leadership, we recommend visiting the Department of State homepage’s Biographies of Senior Officials and List of U.S. Ambassadors.
Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
Last
updated March 14, 2024.
Career Foreign Service Officer
States of Residence: Virginia, Florida
States of Residence: Virginia, Florida
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Egypt)
Appointed: April 5, 1928
Presentation of Credentials: July 19, 1928
Termination of Mission: Left Egypt July 30, 1930 - Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Ecuador)
Appointed: January 22, 1930
- Did not serve under this appointment.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Romania)
Appointed: July 31, 1937
Presentation of Credentials: October 23, 1937
Termination of Mission: Romania declared war on the United States on December 12, 1941- Gunther died at Bucharest on December 22, 1941.