WALLER, GEORGE PLATT, 1889-1962

Biography:

Lawyer, diplomat. Born– September 7, 1889, in Montgomery, Ala. Parents– George Platt and Susan Theresa (Jones) Waller. Education– University of Virginia, LL.B., 1912. Principal of high school, Chilhowie, Va., 1913. Vice consul or consul for U.S. Department of State, 1913-1950, serving in Nova Scotia; Austria; Greece; Kobe, Japan; Bizerte, Tunisia; La Ceiba, Honduras; Dresden, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; Luxemburg; Chihuahua, Mexico; Florence, Italy; Washington, D.C. Awarded honorary LL.B. from Jones Law School. President, Alabama Historical Association. Director, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Published poems in Lippincott’s magazine. Died February 26, 1962.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; National Cyclopedia of American Biography.

Publication(s):

Commerce Industries of Greece. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1916.

Compiler:

Susie Jones Waller; Her Life and Verse. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1953.