Person
Henry Morgenthau Sr.
U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916; his cables to Washington are among the earliest outside accounts of the deportations.
- Also known as
- Henry Morgenthau
- worked at United States government (Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) 1913–1916
Connections 5
worked at
- United States government 1913–1916 Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Primary record 1
intervened in
involved in
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 U.S. ambassador who cabled Washington about it Primary record 3
- Arrests of 24 April 1915 cabled Washington three days later Primary record 7
authored
- Ambassador Morgenthau's Story 1918 Scholarship & press 8
Timeline 3 dates
- 1913–1916 Henry Morgenthau Sr. worked at United States government
- 1915 Henry Morgenthau Sr. intervened in Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916
- 1918 Henry Morgenthau Sr. authored Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Proof 8 sources
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H. Res. 296, 116th Congress: Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide (as passed by the House, 29 October 2019), U.S. Government Publishing Office, 29 Oct 2019.
Primary record
the Honorable Henry Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1397: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 2 May 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 2 May 1915.
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Minister of the Interior stated that the Sublime Porte had sent instructions to provincial authorities to protect from molestation all innocent people and that any official who disobeyed these orders would be punished.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1400: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 10 July 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 10 Jul 1915.
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My arguments were unavailing except as to Constantinople.
Persecution of Armenians assuming unprecedented proportions.
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Telegram 858, Ambassador Morgenthau to the Secretary of State, 16 July 1915 (U.S. National Archives, RG 59, 867.4016/76), Armenian National Institute (transcription of the National Archives record), 16 Jul 1915.
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a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1402: the Secretary of State (Lansing) to the Ambassador in Turkey, 16 July 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 16 Jul 1915.
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Department approves your procedure in pleading with Turkish Minister of Interior and Minister of War to stop Armenian persecution
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1410: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 3 September 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 3 Sep 1915.
Primary record
Destruction of Armenian race in Turkey is progressing rapidly.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1395: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 27 April 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 27 Apr 1915.
Primary record
Over hundred Armenians of better class were arrested ostensibly to prevent revolutionary propaganda.
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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Doubleday, Page and Company (Project Gutenberg edition), 1918.
Scholarship & press
The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation.
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