Nelson O’Shaughnessy

Background

O’Shaughnessy, Nelson was born on February 12, 1876 in New York, New York, United States. Son of James Francis and Lucy (Waterbury) O’S.

Education

Georgetown College, 1892. Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford, England, 1899. Studied international law at Inner Temple, London, 1899-1901, and foreign languages in various countries of Europe.

Doctor of Laws, Fordham University, 1922.

Career

1 son, Elim. Appointed secretary Legation, Copenhagen, 1904. 3d secretary embassy, Berlin, 1905, Saint St. Petersburg, 1906, Vienna, 1907. Secretary legation Bucharest, Roumania, 1909.

2d secretary embassy, Mexico, 1911, secretary, 1912, charge d’affaires, July 17, 1913, continuing during non-recognition by United States of government of General Huerta.

Given passports by Huerta government, April 22, 1914. Special diplomatic agent attached to Vienna, August 3, 1914.

Retired from diplomatic service, 1916, as secretary of embassy of first class. Republican in South. America of Western Union Telegraph Company, 1918-1919, to procure cable concessions between North and South America.

Representative of America bondholders on Board of the Autonomous Monopolies of Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Belgrade.

First Plattsburg Training Camp, August, 1915.

Achievements

• Nelson O’Shaughnessy has been listed as a noteworthy diplomat by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Edith Louise Coues, April.

Father:

James Francis O’South.

Mother:

Lucy (Waterbury) O’South.

Spouse:

Edith Louise Coues