Biography

Mentioned in 18610612CharlesSumner_WHS: "My dear Secretary,  Mr Motley has just arrived, fresh from long-continued intimacy & recent conversation with Lord Palmerston & Lord John Russell – in the course of which our affairs have been much discussed.  He is a true American, who knows well how to be thoroughly loyal to his own country & to inspire the confidence of foreign statesmen."

US Diplomat, Author. Served as the United States Minister to Austria from 1861 to 1867, and United States Minister to England from 1869 to 1870. Also served as a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives. (bio by: K)