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The First Ambassador

Author: Mary Claffey
Publication: Sep/Oct 2008 [Page 48; 10 pages]
Date: Monday, September 01, 2008

Summary: America sent its first ambassador to Russia 200 years ago. He would go on to become the sixth U.S. president.

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