Henry Frank Holthusen
American lawyer
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Henry Frank Holthusen (August 3, 1894 – September 19, 1971, Manhattan, New York City) was a corporation, admiralty, and international lawyer and diplomat.[1]
Personal life
Holthusen graduated from Columbia University both for undergraduate (1915) and law degrees (1917).[2][3] He died of cancer at his home at 128 Central Park South.[1]
Career
After serving in the US Army during World War I, Holthusen was a special assistant United States Attorney General and later counsel in the United States for the newly established Latvian and Estonian Governments.[1]
President Hoover named him Minister to Czechoslovakia in 1933, but it was an end of the term appointment and he did not serve.[4] He negotiated with the Mexican Government for the Economic Survey of Mexico by a joint United States‐Mexican Economic Commission in 1944 and headed the Telecommunications Mission to Japan, Turkey and other countries in 1951‐52. He was a partner in the law firm of Holthusen & Pinkham until 1952.[1]