-Physician; Head of surgery, St. Alexis Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
-Assisted Dr. George Washington Crile with the first modern blood transfusion, in 1906 at the Cleveland Clinic.
-U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-37, where he personally averted war between Honduras and Nicaragua in 1937.
-U.S. Minister to Panama, 1937-39.
-First United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1939-1947 Appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
-Political Advisor on Latin America to the United States mission at the United Nations, 1947.
-Catholic. Member, American Medical Association; Rotary.
-Second cousin to Major John MacBride, famous for raising and eventually leading The Irish Transvaal Brigade, known as "MacBride's Brigade", for the Boers, against the British, in the Second Boer War of 1899-1900, and his role in the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, for which the British executed him in the Stone Breakers' Yard at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, May 5th, 1916.
-Assisted Dr. George Washington Crile with the first modern blood transfusion, in 1906 at the Cleveland Clinic.
-U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-37, where he personally averted war between Honduras and Nicaragua in 1937.
-U.S. Minister to Panama, 1937-39.
-First United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1939-1947 Appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
-Political Advisor on Latin America to the United States mission at the United Nations, 1947.
-Catholic. Member, American Medical Association; Rotary.
-Second cousin to Major John MacBride, famous for raising and eventually leading The Irish Transvaal Brigade, known as "MacBride's Brigade", for the Boers, against the British, in the Second Boer War of 1899-1900, and his role in the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, for which the British executed him in the Stone Breakers' Yard at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, May 5th, 1916.
-Physician; Head of surgery, St. Alexis Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
-Assisted Dr. George Washington Crile with the first modern blood transfusion, in 1906 at the Cleveland Clinic.
-U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-37, where he personally averted war between Honduras and Nicaragua in 1937.
-U.S. Minister to Panama, 1937-39.
-First United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1939-1947 Appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
-Political Advisor on Latin America to the United States mission at the United Nations, 1947.
-Catholic. Member, American Medical Association; Rotary.
-Second cousin to Major John MacBride, famous for raising and eventually leading The Irish Transvaal Brigade, known as "MacBride's Brigade", for the Boers, against the British, in the Second Boer War of 1899-1900, and his role in the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, for which the British executed him in the Stone Breakers' Yard at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, May 5th, 1916.
-Assisted Dr. George Washington Crile with the first modern blood transfusion, in 1906 at the Cleveland Clinic.
-U.S. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-37, where he personally averted war between Honduras and Nicaragua in 1937.
-U.S. Minister to Panama, 1937-39.
-First United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1939-1947 Appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
-Political Advisor on Latin America to the United States mission at the United Nations, 1947.
-Catholic. Member, American Medical Association; Rotary.
-Second cousin to Major John MacBride, famous for raising and eventually leading The Irish Transvaal Brigade, known as "MacBride's Brigade", for the Boers, against the British, in the Second Boer War of 1899-1900, and his role in the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, for which the British executed him in the Stone Breakers' Yard at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, May 5th, 1916.
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