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Ambrose Dudley Mann was born on April 26, 1801 at Hanover Court House, Virginia.
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Ambrose Dudley Mann was born on April 26, 1801 at Hanover Court House, Virginia.
He was educated in the Virginia schools and at the United States Military Academy at West Point, whence he resigned just before graduation in order to avoid entering the military profession.
He took up the legal profession and soon became interested in politics. In 1842 he was appointed United States consul at Bremen, Germany, and in 1846 he was given diplomatic powers as a special commissioner to the German states for the purpose of negotiating commercial treaties. He drew up commercial treaties with Hanover, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and with other German states. Acting on Mann's suggestion, Polk recognized the federal government of Germany at Frankfort in 1848. In 1849 Mann was appointed special agent of the United States to Kossuth's government in Hungary. He was virtually authorized to extend recognition if events seemed to warrant it. After the collapse of this project he was sent to Switzerland as special agent of the United States during the administration of Fillmore. In this capacity he negotiated and signed a general convention of friendship and reciprocal agreements. On his return to America he became assistant secretary of state and served from 1853 to 1856. With the approach of the Civil War Mann was increasingly identified with the Southern Rights party. He was especially prominent in the advocacy of the economic independence of the South, which, because of his special knowledge of commerce and navigation, assumed the form of championship of a Southern merchantmarine. He wrote pamphlets and articles for DeBow's Review, 1856-58, urging the establishment of a direct steamship line between the Southern states and Europe. He also advised building fast ships which would be specially fitted for Southern waters. Because of his representations to it, the Virginia legislature in 1858 incorporated a company for establishing the direct trade. The idea was very popular during this period when such men as Yancy, Hammond, DeBow, and others were attempting to convince the South of the necessity of casting off its vassalage to Northern industry and commerce. So when the South withdrew from the Union in 1861 the choice of Mann as joint commissioner with Yancy and Rost and as associate commissioner with Mason and Slidell was not entirely illogical. But expert knowledge of trade and shipping and experience in arranging commercial treaties apparently constituted Mann's chief qualifications for a position which required diplomacy of the highest skill.
Mann spent the first year of his mission in London and the last three years in Belgium where he wasted time cultivating the already friendly King Leopold, who it was hoped would exercise moving influence upon Napoleon and Queen Victoria. In two matters, however, he was not a complete failure: he managed to influence the press in both England and Belgium in 1861 at the time when the Confederacy had no regular propagandist agents in Europe; and in the winter of 1863-64 he went to the Vatican to obtain the aid of the Pope in checking the Federal recruiting in Europe of Catholic Irish and Germans. Altogether the Northern cause won large numbers of recruits from Europe, mostly in Ireland and Germany, and it would have been worth a whole series of successful campaigns to the Confederacy if this enlistment of foreigners could have been frustrated. The Pope expressed great indignation and horror when he learned to what extent his subjects were being utilized by the United States as cannon fodder and immediately attempted to put a check to their enlistment. But, while many were restrained by the Pope's objection, there was no appreciable decrease in the number of those who left Ireland and the other Catholic countries and entered the Federal armies to get the bounty. Mann remained in Europe after the overthrow of the Confederacy and lived in Paris until his death in 1889.
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Mann was credulous and lacking in penetration and seems never to have been aware of the real drift of affairs. His diplomatic correspondence is characterized by ponderous and bombastic phrases and sophomoric sentiments.
On June 29, 1830 Ambrose Dudley Mann married Hebe L. Carter Mann at Greenup County, Kentucky.