Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton -
People - Department History
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823–1877)
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.
State of Residence: Indiana
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (United Kingdom)
Appointed: September 23, 1870
- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate. Commissioned to London; declined appointment.