Frank Lockhart (diplomat)

Frank P. Lockhart
Consul General of the United States, Shanghai
In office
1940–1941
Preceded by Clarence E. Gauss
Succeeded by Monnett B. Davis
Personal details
Born (1881-04-08)8 April 1881
Pittsburg, Texas, United States of America
Died 25 August 1949(1949-08-25) (aged 68)
Washington DC

Frank Pruitt Lockhart (April 8, 1881 – August 25, 1949) was an American diplomat who served for many years in China.

Early life

Lockhart was born April 8, 1881 in Pittsburg, Texas, the son of Franklin Asbury and Mary E. (Pruitt) Lockhart.[1]

He attended Grayson College. Following graduation he first worked as a newspaper editor in Texas.[2] After two years he went to Washington DC where he worked as a private secretary to Morris Sheppard, who was a senator and subsequently member of the House of Representatives.[3]

Diplomatic career

In 1914, Lockhart joined the State Department as assistant chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs eventually rising to chief of the division. He was involved in the Washington Naval Conference on arms control as an expert. In 1925, he was appointed US consul-general in Hankow and between 1931 and 1933 he was US Consul-General in Tianjin. In 1933, he was transferred to the US Embassy in Peiping as Counsellor to the US Embassy. Lockhart was appointed consul-general in Shanghai, in 1939 serving until December 7, 1941 when the US Consulate was occupied at the beginning of the Pacific War. He was interned until he was repatriated in mid 1942 on the MS Gripsholm.[4]

From October 1942, he was chief of the Office of Phillipines Affairs and promoted to the chief of the Division of Phillipines Affairs in Jan 1944 until his retirement in 1946.[5] He subsequently joined the American Foreign Service Association serving as a director and business manager of the American Foreign Service Journal.[6]

Family

Lockhart married Ruby Hess. They had a son, Frank Pruitt Lochkart Jr and a daughter Maurine.

Death

Lockhart died on August 25, 1949 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC.[7] He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery in Pittsburg, Texas[8]

References

  1. ↑ Findagrave memorial for Lockhart
  2. ↑ New US Consul-General Started His Career as Newspaperman, China Weekly Review, May 14, 1938, p303
  3. ↑ Obituary to Lockhart in the American Foreign Service Journal, September 1949
  4. ↑ New US Consul-General Started His Career as Newspaperman, China Weekly Review, May 14, 1938, p303 and Obituary to Lockhart in the American Foreign Service Journal, September 1949
  5. ↑ Biographic Register, 1945, p177
  6. ↑ Obituary to Lockhart in the American Foreign Service Journal, September 1949
  7. ↑ American Foreign Service Journal, September 1949, p25
  8. ↑ Findagrave memorial for Lockhart
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