Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1878)

Townsend Harris

American merchant and politician (1804–1878)

Townsend Harris was an American merchant and politician who served as the first United States Consul General to Japan. He negotiated the Harris Treaty between the US and Japan and is credited as the diplomat who first opened Shogunate Japan to foreign trade and culture in the…

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.