Edward Henry Strobel (December 7, 1855 – January 15, 1908) was a United States

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and a

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. Strobel was born in

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on December 7, 1855. He was educated at

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and at

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. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1883. In 1885 he was appointed Secretary of the

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of the United States to Spain, serving until 1890. Based on notes from his period in

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, Strobel wrote a book on the Spanish revolution in 1868. Strobel returned to become Third Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. during 1893–1894. He served as U.S. Minister to Ecuador in 1894, and to Chile from 1894 to 1897. He returned to

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in 1898 to become the Bemis Professor of International Law. In 1903 Strobel took a leave of absence to represent the Kingdom of

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at the International Peace Court in

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in 1903. In 1906 he moved to

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to become the American Adviser in Foreign Affairs to the government King

Chulalongkorn Chulalongkorn ( th, จุฬาลงกรณ์, 20 September 1853 – 23 October 1910) was the fifth monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, titled Rama V. He was known to the Siamese of his time as ''Phra Phuttha Chao Luang'' (พร� ...

of Siam. Edward Strobel died in Bangkok, Siam on January 15, 1908. He had suffered

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after a long illness that started with the bite of an insect in Egypt two years earlier. He was cremated in a ceremony on February 5 1908, at which King

himself lighted the funeral

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. There is a memorial stone dedicated to Strobel in the churchyard of the Unitarian Church in his hometown Charleston, South Carolina.

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Edward Henry Strobel Edward Henry Strobel (December 7, 1855 – January 15, 1908) was a United States diplomat and a scholar in international law. Strobel was born in Charleston, South Carolina on December 7, 1855. He was educated at Harvard College and at Harvard La ...

19th-century American diplomats Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador Harvard College alumni

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