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Scruggs, William L.

Diplomatist; born near Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 14, 1834; was admitted to the bar in 1860; United States minister to Colombia in 1871-77 and in 1881-87; United States consul at Chin-Kiang and Canton, China, in 1877-81; [100] and United States minister to Venezuela in 1889-93. He was the legal adviser and special agent for Venezuela to arrange the Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dispute in 1893-98; brought the matter to arbitration in 1897. He is the author of British aggressions in Venezuela, or the Monroe doctrine on trial; Lord Salisbury's mistakes; The Colombian and Venezuelan republics, etc.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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