William Woodville Rockhill
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William Woodville Rockhill was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading
William Woodville Rockhill
Four Westerners in Tatsienlu, 1890, photographed by Prince Henri d'Orléans. From left: Father Déjean, Bishop Félix Biet, the American Tibetologist William Woodville Rockhill and Father Jean André Soulié
Rockhill at Washington, D. C. in 1902
The Land of the Lamas
Curtis Guild Jr.
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Curtis Guild Jr. was an American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 43rd governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1906 to 1909. Prior to his election as governo
William Woodville Rockhill
…Sr. United States Ambassador to Russia In office January 11, 1910 – June 17, 1911 President William Howard Taft Preceded by John W. Riddle Succeeded by Curtis Guild, Jr. United States Ambassador to China In office March 8, 1905 – June 1, 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Preceded by Edwin H. Conger…
c. 1905 portrait photograph by John Garo
John L. Bates, published 1905
Eben Sumner Draper, 1914 photograph