Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin

For other people named Samuel Benjamin, see Samuel Benjamin (disambiguation).

Portrait of S.G.W. Benjamin, 1887

Benjamin's former residence (right) in Washington, D.C.

Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (February 13, 1837 – July 19, 1914) was an American statesman.

His parents were American missionaries in Greece. Born in Argos, Greece, but then educated in the United States, he pursued careers as a journalist, author, and diplomat. In 1883, he was appointed as the first American Minister to Persia, a post he occupied for two years.

It was he who first drafted the diplomatic code used by the American legation in Persia.

See also

• US-Iran relations

References

• Lorentz, J.: Historical Dictionary of Iran, 1995. ISBN 0-8108-2994-0.
• Olsen, T.: S. G. W. Benjamin, Thomson-Gale 2005/06. URL last accessed 2007-02-20.
• Political Graveyard: Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler. URL last accessed 2007-02-20.

External links

• Works by S.G.W. Benjamin at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about S.G.W. Benjamin at the Internet Archive
• Works by or about Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin at the Internet Archive
• Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Benjamin (see index)