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From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United
States. Benjamin Franklin established the first overseas mission of the
United States in Paris in 1779. On April 19, 1782, John Adams was received
by the States-General, and the Dutch Republic became the third country,
after Morocco and France, to recognize the United States as an independent
government. Adams then became the first U.S. ambassador to the
Netherlands[1][2][3][4] and the house that he had purchased at Fluwelen
Burgwal 18 in The Hague, became the first American embassy anywhere in the
world
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In the period following the American Revolution, George Washington sent a
number of close advisers to the courts of European potentates in order to
garner recognition of American independence with mixed results, including
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Francis Dana and John Jay.[6] Much of the
first fifty years of the Department of State concerned negotiating with
imperial European powers over the territorial integrity of the borders of
the United States as known today.
The first overseas consulate of the fledgling United States was founded in
1790 at Liverpool, England, by James Maury Jr, who was appointed by
Washington. Maury held the post from 1790 to 1829. Liverpool was at the time
England's leading port for transatlantic commerce and therefore of great
economic importance to the former Thirteen Colonies.
The first overseas property owned, and the longest continuously owned, by
the United States is the American Legation in Tangier, which was a gift of
the Sultan of Morocco in 1821. In general during the nineteenth century, the
United States' diplomatic activities were done on a minimal budget. The US
owned no property abroad and provided no official residences for its foreign
envoys, paid them a minimal salary and gave them the rank of ministers
rather than ambassadors.[7]
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the State Department was
concerned with expanding commercial ties in Asia, establishing Liberia,
foiling diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy and securing its presence
in North America. The Confederacy had diplomatic missions in the United
Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Papal States, Russia, Mexico and Spain, and
consular missions in Ireland, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Bermuda, Nassau and New
Providence and Texas.[8]
America's global preeminence became evident in the twentieth century, and
the State Department was required to invest in a large network of diplomatic
missions to manage its bilateral and multilateral relations.[9] The wave of
oveseas construction began with the creation of the State Department’s
Foreign Service Buildings Commission in 1926.[10]
Listed below are American embassies and other diplomatic missions around the
world. The U.S. has dubbed some of its consulates as "American Presence
Posts", to provide chiefly consular services |
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