RARE "Ambassador to Mexico" Henry Lane Wilson Clipped Signature For Sale
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Henry Lane Wilson (November
3, 1857 – December 22, 1932) was an American attorney who was appointed to the
post of United States Ambassador
to Mexico in 1910. He was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana,
to Congressman James Wilson and his
wife, Emma Ingersoll. In 1866, his father was appointed to the position
of Minister Resident to Venezuela by President Andrew Johnson and served in that role until his death
in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 8, 1867. Henry Lane Wilson was a
law graduate of Wabash College and
practiced law and published a newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana. He
married Alice Vajen in 1885, and moved to Spokane, Washington, where
he was in business until he was wiped out financially in the Panic of 1893. Wilson served in the US Foreign Service during
the presidencies of William McKinley (1897–1901), Theodore Howard Taft (1909–1913).
He was appointed Minister to Chile in 1897, remaining in that
capacity until 1904, when he was made Minister to Belgium, serving in Brussels during the height of the Congo Free State controversy. Wilson was appointed
ambassador to Mexico in 1910, where he instrumented the fall of the
first democratic Mexican government of Francisco I. Madero, and
was a key actor in bringing to power military dictator Victoriano Huerta,
prolonging the Mexican Revolution. Wilson
was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Taft on December 21, 1909 and
presented his credentials to President Diaz on March 5, 1910. Wilson was
ordered by William Howard Taft to
remain neutral and to not make the USA responsible for the outcome of the
rebellions occurring in Mexico at the time. He became personally
acquainted with some of the most important figures of the Revolution, such
as Álvaro Obregón, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, and Francisco I. Mexico, fearing the leftist tendencies of the new Madero
government upon the ouster of Diaz (not to mention the fact that he considered
Madero a 'lunatic'), he assumed the role of catalyst for
the plot of General Victoriano Huerta, Felix Díaz, and
General Bernardo Reyes against
President Madero, and
was purported to have assisted in arranging the murder of Madero, Madero's
brother, Gustavo A. Madero, and his
vice-president, José María Pino Suárez,
during La decena trágica (The
Ten Tragic Days) in February 1913, a point that was later disputed by Wilson. After his inauguration in March of
that year, President Woodrow Wilson was
informed of events in Mexico by a special agent, William Bayard Hale, and
was appalled by Henry Lane Wilson's role in the Huerta coup d'état against Madero. Hale reported that
"Madero would never have been assassinated had the American Ambassador
made it thoroughly understood that the plot must stop short of murder",
and accused Henry Lane Wilson of "treason, perfidy and assassination in an
assault on constitutional government". The President supplanted Henry
Lane Wilson by sending to Mexico as his personal envoy John Lind, the former
governor of Minnesota. On 17 July 1913, the President dismissed Ambassador
Wilson. During
the First World War, Wilson served on the Commission for Relief in
Belgium and, in 1915, accepted the chairmanship of the Indiana
State Chapter of the League to Enforce Peace, a
position he held until his resignation over US involvement in the League of Nations after the close of the war. Wilson was
a member of Sons of the American
Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars and
the Loyal Legion He published his memoir in 1927,
and died in Indianapolis in 1932.
He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery,
Indianapolis.
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