John G. A. LEISHMAN

Background

LEISHMAN, John G. A. was born in March 1857 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2S March 1857.

Education

Studied at Public Schools.

Career

Former President of the Carnegie Steel Company, from which office he resigned to accept the nomination tendered by 1196 President M‘Kinley as American Minister to Switzerland, 1897. Transferred to Turkey, 1901. American Ambassador to Turkey.

Membership

Clubs: Union League, New York Yacht, New New York Metropolitan, Washington. Duquesne, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Travellers’, Paris; Cercle d’Orient, Club de Constantinople, Constantinople.

Connections

Spouse 1880, Julia Crawford.

Spouse:

Julia Crawford