John Watson Foster was an American military man, journalist and diplomat. Born in Petersburg, Indiana, and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War. Following the war he worked as a journalist, editing the "Evansville Daily Journal" from 1865 to 1869 Thereafter he was the U.S. Minister to Mexico (1873-1880), to Russia (1880-1881) and to Spain (1883-1885). Wikipedia
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