Ambrose Dudley Mann (April 26, 1801November 15, 1889) was the first
United States Assistant Secretary of State and a commissioner for the
Confederate States of America.
Early life
Mann was born on April 26, 1801, in
Hanover Courthouse, Virginia. He studied at the
United States Military Academy but left before he graduated.
US government service
He later became US
consul to
Bremen
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in 1842 and was appointed to negotiate commercial treaties with
Hanover,
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, and
Mecklenburg in 1845 as well as all the German states except
Prussia in 1847. In 1849, he became commissioner to
Hungary and in 1850, he became
US Consul to Switzerland, where he negotiated a
reciprocity treaty. He then returned to the
United States, where he was appointed as the first Assistant Secretary of State in 1853; he served until 1855.
Civil War
During the
American Civil War, he sided with the Confederacy and devoted himself especially to the development of the material interests of its states. On March 16, 1861,
Confederate President
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Jefferson Davis
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and
Secretary of State Robert Toombs appointed Mann,
William Lowndes Yancey and
Pierre Adolphe Rost
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Early life and emigration to the United States
Born in the department of Lot-et-Garonne, France in 1797, Rost receiv ...
the first
Confederate
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commissioners to Europe. The three sailed on March 31, 1861. Mann eventually received the title ''Commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican''. Yancey and Rost were later replaced by
John Slidell and
James Murray Mason, the two subjects of the
''Trent'' Affair.
Later life
Mann spent the latter part of his life living in France where he had an apartment in
Paris and a country house in
Chantilly
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. He wrote his memoirs, which were available to read by 1888. Mann died in France in 1889, the exact date of his death (Nov. 15, 1889) being announced in the Nov. 16, 1889 issue of the French newspaper ''Journal des Debats''. After a delay of about 6 weeks, Mann was finally interred on January 2, 1890, in the
Montparnasse Cemetery
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, in Paris.
Further reading
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External links
A. Dudley Mann's correspondents from 1849-1850*
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1801 births
1889 deaths
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
Confederate States of America diplomats
19th-century American diplomats
Confederate expatriates
People from Hanover, Virginia
Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery