Background
MESSERSMITH, George S was born on October 3, 1883 in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States A.
American foreign service officer
MESSERSMITH, George S was born on October 3, 1883 in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States A.
Graduated Keystone State Normal School, 1900. Student, Delaware College, Newark, Delaware.
Secretary, State Board of Examiners for Teachers, 1911-1914. Vicepres., State Board of Education, 1912-1914. American consul, Fort Erie, Canada, 1914-1916, Curaçao, Dutch West Indies, 1916-1919, Antwerp, Belgium, 1919-1923.
Consul general, Belgium and Luxembourg, 1923-1928, Argentina, 1928. Berlin, 1930-1934; foreign service inspector, since 1929. PTE. and; assistant secretary of State, 1937-1940.
Ambassador to Cuba, 1940-1941, to Mexico, since 1941. Presbyterian. Member Cercle de la Concorde, Antwerp Golf Club, Philotaxe Club, Royal Polo (Antwerp), Metropolitan (Washington, District of Columbia). Messersmith and Sarah S. C. Strausser.
Supt. schools, various towns of Delaware, 1900-1914.;;;;;; M.P., Uruguay, 1934, Austria, 1934.; ambassador to Cuba, 1940-1941, to Mexico, since 1941.
Presbyterian.
Member and secretary, State Board of Examiners for Teachers, 1911-1914. Member Cercle de la Concorde, Antwerp Golf Club, Philotaxe Club, Royal Polo (Antwerp), Metropolitan (Washington, District of Columbia).