Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — THE TURKISH MINISTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE TURKISH MINISTER.

A Christian Representative from a Mohammedan Government. Alexander Marvoyeni-Bey, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Ottoman Empire to the United States, was born in Constantinople, Turkey, in October, 1852. He received his primary education in Constantinople, but when quite a youth he was sent to the schools in Paris. In the University of the

latter city he graduated in law, taking the degree of L. D. in 1871. The new Minister is a Christian, and belongs to one of the noblest Greek families of Turkey. On his return to Constantinople he entered the Foreign Office, and for two years he was one of the private secretaries of the present reigning Sultan. Afterward he was appointed Secretary of Legation to the Embassies of Servia, Roumania, England, and Spain, and from the latter post he was gazetted Envoy and Minister of the Sultan to Washington, D. C., U. S. A. He is a man below the medium height, stout and compactly built, with a large head. He is well liked for his skillful diplomacy, scholarly attainments, elegant courtesy, and gentlemanly qualities.