John Elliott Ward

John Elliott Ward

John Elliott Ward (October 2, 1814 – November 29, 1902) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as United States Attorney for Georgia, mayor of Savannah, Georgia, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, president of the Georgia Senate, president of the 1856 Democratic National Convention, and United States Minister to China under James Buchanan. He resigned from his diplomatic post shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War, returned to Savannah, and after the war, moved to New York City, where he practiced law for several years.

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United States Ambassadors to China

Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843–1858	Caleb Cushing Alexander Hill Everett John Wesley Davis Humphrey Marshall Robert Milligan McLane Peter Parker

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858–1913	William Bradford Reed John Elliott Ward Anson Burlingame John Ross Browne Frederick Low Benjamin Avery George Seward James Burrill Angell John Russell Young Charles Harvey Denby Edwin H. Conger William Woodville Rockhill William James Calhoun

Envoy to the Republic of China 1913–1929	Paul Samuel Reinsch Charles Richard Crane Jacob Gould Schurman John Van Antwerp MacMurray

Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929–1949	Nelson T. Johnson Clarence E. Gauss Patrick J. Hurley John Leighton Stuart American Institute in Taiwan

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973–79	David K. E. Bruce George H. W. Bush Thomas S. Gates Jr. Leonard Woodcock

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979–present	Leonard Woodcock Arthur W. Hummel Jr. Winston Lord James R. Lilley J. Stapleton Roy Jim Sasser Joseph Prueher Clark T. Randt Jr. Jon Huntsman Jr. Gary Locke Max Baucus Terry Branstad (Nominee)

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