Alvey Augustus Adee

miesto: Stonington

narodený: 1842

smrť: 1924

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Alvey Augustus Adee was an American diplomat and politician. He was born on November 27, 1842, in Stonington, Connecticut, United States. He spent his diplomatic apprenticeship in the American legation at Madrid and entered the State Department in Washington in 1877, where he served until his death on July 5, 1924. Adee was the acting Secretary of State in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. He was also a senior State Department official who provided continuity and good management in American foreign policy for over a century, from the administration of President Andrew Jackson until that of Franklin D. Roosevelt.