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James Wright Gordon

Gordon was U.S. Consul in Pernambuco, Brazil from 1850 to 1853 and died at the age of 44, while in office, when he accidentally fell to his death from a second-story balcony.

John C. Caldwell

He then entered the diplomatic service as the U.S. Consul in Valparaíso, Chile, from 1869 to 1874; U.S. Minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1874 to 1882; U.S. Consul to San José, Costa Rica, 1897 to 1909.

Paul Claudel

He was French consul in China (1895–1909), including consul in Shanghai (June 1895), and vice-consul in Fuzhou (October 1900), consul in Tianjin (Tientsin) (1906–1909), in Prague (December 1909), Frankfurt am Main (October 1911), Hamburg (October 1913), ministre plénipotentiaire in Rio de Janeiro (1916), Copenhagen (1920), ambassador in Tokyo (1922–1928), Washington, D.C. (1928–1933) and Brussels (1933–1936).

William E. Phelps

During the Civil War, he served as Consulate General of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

In November 1863, Phelps was appointed Consulate General of Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he served for three years.


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Angola–United States relations

The Consulate General of Angola in Houston (Portuguese: Consulado Geral de Angola em Houston) is located in Suite 780 at 3040 Post Oak Boulevard of the Lakes on Post Oak complex in Uptown Houston, Texas in the United States.

Australian Consulate General in Chennai

The decision of opening a Consulate General in South India was announced in March 2006, when the then Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, visited the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

British Consulate-General, Dallas

The British Consulate General in Dallas was a diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom located in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas, United States.

Bruce Baird

He was Assistant Trade Commissioner at the Australian Embassy in Bonn, Germany, 1972–76 and Trade Commissioner at Australian Consulate-General in New York 1977-80.

Chiang Pin-kung

He was Assistant Commercial Attaché at the ROC Embassy in Japan from 1967 to 1974, Commercial Attaché at the ROC Consulate General in Johannesburg from 1974 to 1979, Economic Counsular at the ROC Embassy in South Africa from 1979 to 1981, Deputy Director-General of the Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT) from 1982 to 1983, Secretary-General of the China External Trade Development Council from 1983 to 1988, and Director-General of the BOFT from 1988 to 1989.

Chinese Consulate-General, Auckland

The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Auckland (Chinese: 中华人民共和国奥克兰总领事馆; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Zhù Àokèlán Zŏnglĭngshìguān) is a diplomatic missions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at 588 Great South Road in the Greenlane suburb of Auckland City, New Zealand.

Consulate General of the United States, Curaçao

The Consulate General of the United States of America Curaçao is located in Willemstad and serves Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten (countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) as well as Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (special municipalities of the Netherlands).

David B. Dunn

From 2002 to 2005 he served as Principal Officer at the Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa.

F. D. Amr Bey

In 1972, he visited the Egyptian Consulate-General in London in order to renew his Egyptian passport, which had been expired for more than 15 years.

Federation for a Democratic China

In 2005 Chen Yonglin, then Chinese consulate-general working in Sydney, defected to the Australian government by a formal claim for political asylum.

Jinnah House

Though Narasimha Rao, India's foreign minister in 1980, agreed in principle to lease Jinnah House as the residence of local Consulate-General of Pakistan, the plan was never realised.

Mary A. Ryan

She was assigned as personnel officer at the American Embassy in Tegucigalpa, 1970–1971, and subsequently served as a consular officer at the American consulate general in Monterrey.

Nhuan Xuan Le

Nhuận taught, with the USIS and American Consulate General's help, the first ever English-by-Radio course for Vietnamese listeners.

North Korea–Pakistan relations

Pakistan has an Embassy in Pyongyang while North Korea maintains an Embassy in Islamabad, a vast Consulate-General in Karachi, and consulates in other cities of Pakistan.

Pablo Goldstein

In 2011, Pablo Goldstein, together with poet Karina Galvez and painter Luis Burgos Flor, was one of the only three non-Mexican artists to be invited to conmemorate the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, where he performed Franz Schubert's Ave Maria (Schubert) and several tango pieces for bandoneón.

Percy R. Pyne House

Together with the buildings of the neighboring Oliver D. Filley House (now the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute) at 684 Park Avenue and the Henry P. Davison House (now the Italian Consulate General) at 690 Park Avenue, it forms one of the last intact architectural ensembles on Park Avenue.

Ras Al Khaimah International Airport

A cable from the Consulate General of the United States in Dubai dated 7 January 2010 published by The Guardian on 1 December 2010 reports that aircraft of Bout's Wing Air Services were at the time effectively abandoned at RAK Airport on their parking apron.

Scott Rauland

From 2003 through 2005, he served as Consul General in Yekaterinburg, Russia, before returning to Germany to work in Frankfurt as Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Consulate General.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park

The Consulate General of Spain donated the statue to the City of Montreal on behalf of the Institute of Hispanic Culture in Madrid to mark the 467th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

United States Ambassador to Libya

The United States recognized the Kingdom of Libya on December 24, 1951, in a congratulatory message sent by President Harry Truman to King Idris I. Diplomatic relations were established on the same day and the U.S. Consulate-General was elevated to a legation with Andrew Lynch designated as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.