Friedrich Hassaurek (8 October 1831

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- 3 October 1885

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journalist and ambassador.

Biography

He attended the Piaristen gymnasium. In the

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, he served in the student legion, and was twice wounded. After the failure of the

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in 1848, he came to the United States, settled in

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, and engaged in journalism, politics, and the practice of law. Hassaurek was prominent among campaigners for

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during the 1860 Presidential election. In

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, to gain a hearing, he appealed to the hospitality of the people. In

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, he threatened to stay a month and try night after night until given a chance to speak. At another time, being abused and pelted with stones and missiles of all kinds, he laid down a revolver, and threatened to shoot any one that advanced upon him. Having thus intimidated the rough element, he was permitted to speak.Albert B. Faust, ''The German Element in the United States'' (2 vols.), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909, vol. 2, p. 131. On his non-career appointment by Lincoln as U. S. minister to Ecuador, Hassaurek went to thank the President “for appointing him to the highest position the administration had the power to give.” (The capital city of Ecuador, Quito, is over above sea level.) He served as minister from 1861 to 1865. In 1865, he became editor of the

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''Volksblatt''. He was a Liberal Republican for Horace Greeley in 1872, and in 1876 campaigned for Samuel J. Tilden. He died in Paris while on a tour for his health.

Leopold Markbreit Leopold Markbreit (March 13, 1842 – July 27, 1909) was a German-American Republican politician in Cincinnati, Ohio. The half-brother of Frederick Hassaurek, Markbreit was a lawyer who was briefly the law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. Presi ...

was his half-brother.

Works

* ''Four Years among the Spanish-Americans'' (New York, 1868) * ''The secret of the Andes.'' Cincinnati,

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1879
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References

* This source records his birthdate as 9 October 1832. *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hassaurek, Friedrich 1831 births 1885 deaths Journalists from Vienna 19th-century American diplomats Austrian Empire emigrants to the United States Forty-Eighters Ohio Liberal Republicans Ohio Democrats Ohio Republicans 19th-century American journalists American male journalists 19th-century American male writers Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery