Leland B. Harrison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLeland B. Harrison
American diplomat
Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1883
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 06-Jun-1951
Profession: diplomat
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Leland B. Harrison
- Leland B.
- Harrison (April 25, 1883 - June 6, 1951) was a United States diplomat.
- The son of W.
- Henry Harrison and Helen (Skidmore) Harrison, he was educated at Eton College, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School.
- After law school, Harrison became the private secretary of United States Ambassador to Japan Thomas J.
- O'Brien.
- He was appointed Third Secretary of the U.S.
- Embassy in Tokyo on June 10, 1908.
- He later filled posts in the United States embassies in Peking, London, and Bogotá.
- In 1918, he became diplomatic secretary of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace.
- He later became counselor of the U.S.
- Embassy in Paris. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson allowed Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Frank Polk quietly and informally to channel the flow of military and law enforcement material into the State Department's Bureau of Secret Intelligence (U-1), what is now known as the Diplomatic Security Service.
- The two men picked Leland Harrison "to take charge of the collection and examination of all information of a secret nature coming into the Department from various sources and also to direct the work of the agents specially employed for that purpose." In 1921, Harrison moved to Washington, D.C.
- to become assistant to the Conference on the Limitation on Armament.
- On March 21, 1922, Harrison was named United States Assistant Secretary of State and he held this office from March 31, 1922, to June 30, 1924. He married Anne C.
- Coleman on June 27, 1925. In 1927, Harrison was named Minister to Sweden, a post he held from May 31, 1927, to November 11, 1929.
- He also headed the U.S.
- delegation to the International Telegraph Conference in Brussels in 1928.
- In 1929, he became Minister to Uruguay, holding this post from April 11, 1930, to October 9, 1930.
- He then resigned temporarily from the United States Foreign Service.
- A short time later, however, he returned to government service as chief of the International Relations Division of the United States Tariff Commission.
- On May 15, 1935, he was named Minister to Romania, serving there from July 24, 1935, to September 3, 1937.
- He was then Minister to Switzerland from September 10, 1937, to October 14, 1947.
- As Ambassador, Harrison was a notable skeptic about accounts of the Holocaust that had been smuggled out of Auschwitz to Switzerland, several of which he received, arguing that the Nazis were merely removing or relocating Jews and not killing them.
- Harrison retired on February 29, 1948.
- After his death in June 1951, he was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St.
- James the Less in Philadelphia.
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