Henry Morgenthau (/ˈmɔrɡəntaʊ/ with a /t/; April 26 1856 – November 25 1946) was a lawyer businessman and United States ambassador most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. As ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Morgenthau has come to be identified as the most prominent American to speak out against the Armenian Genocide.Morgenthau was father of the politician Henry Morgenthau Jr.. His grandchildren included Robert M.
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alma mater
Columbia Law School, City College of New York
birth date
1856-04-26
birth place
Mannheim
child
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
death date
1946-11-25
individualised GND number
118971220
LCCN Id
n/86/070605
order in office
4th United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
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