Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
Portraits of Some of the Newly Appointed Foreign Ministers.
A. M. KEILEY, MINISTER TO AUSTRIA. Anthony M. Keiley, our new representative to the Austrian Court, is a lawyer of prominence and successful practice at Richmond, Ya. He has been Mayor of that city, and was for several years Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. The Democratic Congressmen from Virginia unanimously urged his appointment to a foreign mission.
RASMUS B. ANDERSON, MINISTER TO DENMARK. Prof. R. B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, whom President Cleveland has selected as our Minister to Denmark, is a well-known American scholar, whose translations of Scandinavian’ authors have made his name known to scholars everywhere. He is a Professor pi the University at Madison, Wis., where he was bom in 1846. His father, Bjom Anderson, was among the first large company of emigrants that came from Norway to this country.
CHARLES W. BUCK, MINISTER TO PERU. President Cleveland’s appointee as Minister to Peru is a Louisville lawyer of ability and considerable local reputation both as a jurist and scientist, his chief studies -in the latter line having been principally in the direction of entomology, for which he has a passion. In his appointment to the Peruvian mission, the administration has definitely recognized a section of the United States, the identity of interests of which is becoming constantly more fully admitted.
