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Ellis Loring Dresel1865 - 1925

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Papers of Henry T. Allen, 1806-1933 (Ellis Loring Dresel; correspondent)

found: WWW The Political Graveyard, Mar. 21 (Ellis Loring Dresel; also Ellis L. Dresel; b. 1865; d. 1925; lawyer; U.S. charge d'affaires to Germany, 1921-1922)

Dresel was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was attaché to the U.S. embassy in Berlin in charge of relations between British prisoners of war and the German government (1915-1917); settled the affairs of the U.S. embassy in Vienna after the U.S. entry into the war; worked with the American Legation, its War Trade Board, and the American Red Cross in Berne, Switzerland (1917-1918); headed the political information section of the Paris Peace Conference (1919), for which he made two inspection tours of Germany; and was U.S. commissioner to Germany (1919-1921) with a title change to chargé d'affaires (1921-1922) when relations were normalized. He signed the formal peace treaty in 1921 and returned to the U.S. in 1922.

Chiefly contains correspondence during Dresel's diplomatic service in Europe during and after World War I. Major correspondents include William Richards Castle, Joseph Clark Grew, Hugh Gibson, Henry Remsen Whitehouse, Henry Cabot Lodge, Boylston A. Beal, Geoffrey Drage, André L. Picard, and Allen Welsh Dulles. Also includes correspondence of the American Red Cross, the War Trade Board in Berne, and the U.S. State Department; correspondence and statements of accounts of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna and the U.S. Bureau of Accounts; military and economic reports; photographs; and miscellaneous material.

Ellis Loring Dresel Papers, 1879-1926 (MS Am 1549). Houghton Library, Harvard University. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01312 I.S. 12/12/2017

Ellis Loring Dresel (1865–1925)

Non-career appointee

State of Residence: Massachusetts

Chargé d’Affaires (Germany)

Appointed: November 18, 1921

Presentation of Credentials: December 10, 1921

Termination of Mission: Left post on April 18, 1922

Commissioned to Germany.

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dresel-ellis-loring I.S. 12/12/2017

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