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William W. Rockhill

William W. Rockhill

Former Ambassador of the United States to the People's Republic of China
William Woodville Rockhill was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U.S.'s Open Door Policy for China, the first American to learn to speak Tibetan, and one of the West's leading experts on the modern political history of... Wikipedia
Born: May 1, 1854, Philadelphia, PA
Died: December 8, 1914 (age 60 years), Honolulu, HI
Previous offices: United States Ambassador to Russia (1910–1911), Ambassador of the United States to the People's Republic of China (1905–1909), Ambassador of the United States to Greece (1897–1899), and more
Grandchild: Oliver Rockhill