Frederick Augustine Sterling - People - Department History
Frederick Augustine Sterling (1876–1957)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Texas
State of Residence: Texas
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Ireland)
Appointed: February 19, 1927
Presentation of Credentials: July 27, 1927
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 7, 1934- Commissioned to the Irish Free State.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Bulgaria)
Appointed: September 1, 1933
Presentation of Credentials: April 3, 1934
Termination of Mission: Left post on June 30, 1936- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on January 15, 1934, after confirmation.
- Concurrent Appointments
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Estonia)
Appointed: August 9, 1937
- Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post. Also accredited to Latvia; resident at Riga.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Latvia)
Appointed: August 9, 1937
- Took oath of office, but did not proceed to post. Also accredited to Estonia; resident at Riga.
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Estonia)
- Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Sweden)
Appointed: June 16, 1938
Presentation of Credentials: September 26, 1938
Termination of Mission: Left post on July 14, 1941