George Post Wheeler was an American journalist, writer and career diplomat.
12 Facts About Post Wheeler
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Post Wheeler was born on August 6,1869, in Owego, New York.
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Post Wheeler's parents were Rev Henry Wheeler and Mary Sparkes Wheeler.
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Post Wheeler passed the first examinations given in 1906 for the United States Foreign Service and went on to serve as a career diplomat between 1906 and 1934.
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Post Wheeler married the novelist Hallie Erminie Rives in 1906 in Tokyo.
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Post Wheeler was the second secretary of the United States legation to Japan between 1906 and 1909; served at the American Embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 1906 and 1911 and at the American Embassy in Rome between 1912 and 1913.
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Post Wheeler returned to Japan as Charge d'Affairs between 1914 and 1916 and was later counselor at the American Embassy in Tokyo.
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Post Wheeler went on to serve on the American Legation in Stockholm, Sweden between 1917 and 1920; in London between 1921 and 1924; and in Rio de Janeiro in 1929.
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Post Wheeler was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Paraguay between 1929 and 1933 and to Albania between 1933 and 1934.
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Post Wheeler died on Christmas Eve, December 23,1956 at the Frances Convalescent Home in Neptune, New Jersey.
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Post Wheeler published a number of books and short pieces over his lifetime, including works of poetry and humor, as well as collections of Russian, Albanian, and Hawaiian folklore.
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Post Wheeler collected a number of Japanese rakugo tales to be published in a ten-volume work entitled Ho-Dan-Zo, but the work was never published due to the United States' entry into World War II.