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March 19, 1900
John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1815)
John Bingham
John Armor Bingham was an American politician who served as a Republican representative from Ohio and as the United States ambassador to Japan. In his time as a congressman, Bingham served as both assistant Judge Advocate General in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a House manager (prosecutor) in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson. He was also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Japan
The ambassador of the United States of America to Japan is the ambassador from the United States of America to Japan.