Name Samuel Wheeler | Role Journalist | |
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Books Contemporary Art in Europe, Art in America: A Critical a, Art in America: A Critical a, The Turk and the Greek; Or, Persia | ||
Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (February 13, 1837 – July 19, 1914) was an American statesman.
His parents were American missionaries in Greece. Born in Argos, Greece, but then educated in the United States, he pursued careers as a journalist, author, and diplomat. In 1883, he was appointed as the first American Minister to Persia, a post he occupied for two years.
It was he who first drafted the diplomatic code used by the American legation in Persia.
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