George T. Marye Jr. Explained

George Thomas Marye Jr. (December 13, 1849  - September 2, 1933)^[1] was an American banker from San Francisco, appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Woodrow Wilson.

Biography

He was born on December 13, 1849, to George Thomas Marye Sr, in Baltimore, and studied at Cambridge University, graduating with first-class honors in 1872.^[2]

Arriving in Petrograd 18 months after Ambassador Curtis Guild had left post, he tried to renegotiate the 1832 trade treaty. He served during the first half of the First World War and witnessed the beginning of the end of the Romanov dynasty. In 1929, he published his journals under the title, Russia Observed: Nearing the End in Imperial Russia, containing observations of the Romanov family, Rasputin, and the Russian upper classes.^[3]

He died on September 2, 1933, in Washington, D.C.

Notes and References

1. Book: The New International Year Book . Dodd, Mead and Co. . 1934 . 567 .
2. News: GEORGE T. MARYE, EX-DIPLOMAT, DIES; Ambassador to Czarist Russia, 1914-16 -- His Father Took Part in Gold Rush of '49. AUTHOR, LAWYER, BANKER Went to School in Italy, Germany, Paris and Cambridge -- Wrote of Father's Career. . September 3, 1933 . The New York Times . 2018-06-15 . en.
3. Web site: U.S. Ministers and Ambassadors to Russia . ... San Francisco banker, was appointed Ambassador to Russia by President Woodrow Wilson. Arriving in Petrograd 18 months after Ambassador Guild had left post, he tried without success to restore or renegotiate the 1832 trade treaty. He served during the first half of the First World War and witnessed the beginning of the end of the Romanov dynasty. In 1929, he published his journals under the title, Russia Observed: Nearing the End in Imperial Russia, containing observations of the Romanov family, Rasputin, and the Russian upper classes. . Embassy of the United States, Moscow Russia . 2009-08-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090830105029/http://moscow.usembassy.gov/ministers-and-ambassadors.html . 2009-08-30 .