Background
Dawson, Francis Warrington was born on September 27, 1878 in at Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of Captain Francis W. (founder Charleston News and Courier) and Sarah (Morgan) Dawson.
Dawson, Francis Warrington was born on September 27, 1878 in at Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of Captain Francis W. (founder Charleston News and Courier) and Sarah (Morgan) Dawson.
Educated Ecole Street.Thomas d’Aquin, Paris, University School, Charleston, College of Charleston, 1893-1895. Unmarried.
Began literary career 1888, writing reviews of children's books for his father’s paper. Special newspaper correspondent Spain, 1898, Russia, 1904, Anglo-Russian North Sea Tribunal, Paris, 1905, 2d Hague Conference, 1907, and special missions to French Armies, 1914-1918. American war correspondent, 1917.
Confidential adviser, September 17, 1917, and special assistant American Embassy at Paris, 1919-1937.
Honorary Citizen of Versailles, France. Head of French research department for reconstruction Williamsburg, Virginia, 1928-1932.
Honorary trustee Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association, 1931. Honorary president, Charleston Council, Boy Scouts America, from 1924.
Member 1st neutral commission sent by French Ministry of War to investigate use of asphyxiating gases by Germany army on Anglo-French front, April 1915. Secretary-general Paris Association de la Presse Etrangere, 1905-1908.