Background
Dresel, Ellis Loring was born on November 28, 1865 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Otto and Anna (Loring) Dresel.
Dresel, Ellis Loring was born on November 28, 1865 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Otto and Anna (Loring) Dresel.
Educated private schools United States, French Switzerland and Germany, and Saint Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire (U.S.) Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1887, Bachelor of Laws, 1892 (honorary Master of Arts, 1922). Unmarried.
Practiced at Boston, 1892-1915. Attached to American Embassy, at Berlin, February 1915. Special representative of State Department at Berlin, December 1915-February 1917.
Left Berlin on rupture of relations, also Vienna, after assignment there, March-April 1917.
Assistant to American Legation at Berne, June 1917, as special representative State Department. General director and organizer Central Committee for American Prisoners, and American Red Cross representative for Switzerland, 1917-1918.
Representative War Trade Board for Switzerland, 1917-1918. Honorary 1st secretary of Legation, April 1918.
Attached to Peace Conference at Paris, 1918-1919.
Chief of bureau of Diplomatic Corresponding, later American representative on Temporary Reparation, and other committees Assigned to American Embassy at Paris, with honorary rank of counsellor July 1919, but did not take up duties. Appointed American commissioner to Germany, November 1919, with headquarters at Berlin.
Signed treaty of peace with Germany as United States plenipotentiary, August 25, 1921.
Charge d’affaires at Berlin, November 1921-April 1922.