Foster, John Watson, 1836-1917 (Nombre personal)

Las memorias diplomáticas de Mr. Foster sobre México, 1929: portada (John Watson Foster)

His Arbitration and the Hague Court, 1980, c1904: portada (John W. Foster)

Wikipedia, website viewed 12 October 2010 (John W. Foster, John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836-November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist, diplomat, lawyer, general, and politician. Born in Petersburg, Indiana and rased in Evansville, Indiana; first a lawyer and then general for the Union in the American Civil War; journalist and editor of Evansville Daily Journal from 1865-1869; U.S. Minister to Mexico (1873-1880), to Russia (1880-1881) and Spain (1883-1885); United States Secretary of State (June 29, 1892-February 23, 1893); drafted the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895; political party, Republican)