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About John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley was an American writer and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration, Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.
Everything about John Lothrop Motley →- Occupation
- historian, diplomat, academic, writer
- Position held
- ambassador
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 15, 1814
- Died
- May 29, 1877