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Henry Morgenthau was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent Americans who spoke about the Greek genocide and the Armenian genocide of which he stated, "I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages."
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Born 26 April 1856 · Died 25 November 1946 · Q47946
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“a place of horror. I had reached the end of my resources. I found intolerable my further daily association with men, however gracious and accommodating…who were still reeking with the blood of nearly a million human beings.”
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Died 1946-11-25.
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At age 90 following a cerebral hemorrhage, in New York City, and was buried in Hawthorne, New York
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Was an American representative at the Geneva Conference
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Was nominated as ambassador to Mexico, but was never confirmed as Warren G
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Headed the United States government fact-finding mission to Poland, which produced the Morgenthau Report
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Morgenthau gave public speeches in the United States warning that the Greeks and Assyrians were being subjected to the "same methods" of deportation and "wholesale massacre" as the Armenians, and that two million Armenia
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Career landmark: United States Ambassador to Turkey (1913–1916).
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At a dinner celebrating the fourth anniversary of the founding of the Free Synagogue society and the two "seem to have bonded", marking the "turning point in Morgenthau's political career"
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And was the mother of historian Barbara Tuchman
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Left his law practice and became president of the Central Realty, Bond & Trust Company
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Acquired 41 lots on New York's Lower East Side from William Waldorf Astor for $850,000
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And they had four children: Helen, Alma, Henry Jr
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Born 1856-04-26.
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