FRANCIS, DAVID ROWLAND

(1850), ex-amba ador and merchant; 6. Richmond, Kentucky. After graduating from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1870, he entered busine , and in 1877 established the firm of Francis Brothers, grain merchants, in that city, of which he was mayor from 1885 to 1889. Other public offices he filled were the governorship of Mi ouri from 1889 to 1893 and the post of Secretary of the Interior, 1896-7, in Cleveland’s second administration. President Wilson appointed him amba ador to Ru ia in 1916 and he was the first of the foreign envoys ta recognize the new republic of Ru ia as then formed. He held the post till August, 1918, when the United States severed relations with the Bolshevik government.