Clarence E. Gauss - Chronology

Chronology

U.S. Vice Consul

Shanghai, 1912–15

U.S. Consul

Shanghai, 1916
Amoy, 1916–20
Tsinan, 1920–23

U.S. Consul General

Mukden, 1923–24
Tsinan, 1924–26
Shanghai, 1926–27, 1935–38
Tientsin, 1927–31
Paris, 1935

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Nelson T. Johnson	US Ambassador to China 1941–1944	Succeeded by Patrick Hurley
Preceded by first incumbent	U.S. Ambassador to Australia 1940-1941	Succeeded by Nelson T. Johnson

United States Ambassadors to China

Envoys to the Qing Empire 1843-1858	Caleb Cushing 1843-44 Alexander Hill Everett 1845-47 John Wesley Davis 1848-50 Humphrey Marshall 1852-54 Robert Milligan McLane 1853-54 Peter Parker 1855-57 William B. Reed 1857-58

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plentipotentiary to the Qing Empire 1858-1913	John Elliott Ward 1858-60 Anson Burlingame 1861-67 John Ross Browne 1868-69 Frederick F. Low 1869-73 Benjamin Avery 1874-75 George Seward 1876-80 James Burrill Angell 1880-81 John Russell Young 1882-85 Charles Harvey Denby 1885-98 Edwin H. Conger 1898-05 William Woodville Rockhill 1905-09 William James Calhoun 1909-13

Envoy to the Republic of China 1913-1929	Paul Samuel Reinsch 1913-19 Charles Richard Crane 1920-21 Jacob Gould Schurman 1921-25 John Van Antwerp MacMurray 1925-29

Ambassador to the Republic of China 1929-1949	Nelson T. Johnson 1929-41 Clarence E. Gauss 1941-44 Patrick J. Hurley 1944-45 John Leighton Stuart 1946-49 Embassy in Taipei 1949-Pres.

Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing 1973-79	David K. E. Bruce 1973-74 George H. W. Bush 1974-75 Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 1976-77 Leonard Woodcock 1977-79

Ambassador to the People's Republic of China 1979-Present	Leonard Woodcock 1979-81 Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. 1981-85 Winston Lord 1985-89 James R. Lilley 1989-91 J. Stapleton Roy 1991-95 Jim Sasser 1996-99 Joseph Prueher 1999-01 Clark T. Randt, Jr. 2001-09 Jon Huntsman, Jr. 2009-11 Gary Locke 2011-

Persondata
Name	Gauss, Clarence E.
Alternative names
Short description	American diplomat
Date of birth	January 12, 1887
Place of birth
Date of death	1960
Place of death

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