William Graves Sharp

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William G. Sharp

William Graves Sharp, born in Mount Gilead, Ohio March 14, 1859, deceased November 17, 1922, was an American lawyer, manufacturer, three-term congressman, and diplomat, member of the sixty-first to the sixty-third Congresses of the United States, resigning in 1914 to become Ambassador to France by appointment of President Wilson. He served until April 14, 1919, then returned to Elyria, Ohio, and engaged in literary pursuits. He was known as the Father of Air Mail due to his vision of using aircraft for postal delivery.[1]

His pertinence to the geopolitics of World War I, in his capacity as the American ambassador to France, is likely of note.

See William Graves Sharp for more on his early professional life.

He has largely entered our data in his capacity as an author, and in terms of his political advocacy of aeronautics and aviation, this writing and the political activity somewhat overlapping.

Aero inventor William Sharp, one inventor of Patent US-1911-1177656, is only fairly likely not this individual. Inventors William Sharp and Edward Sharp both filed in collaboration with John Sharp. Interestingly, perhaps, the patent data around these inventors does involve locations in Ohio. See Sharp surname disambiguation. This person had 5 publications and 0 patents in this database.

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Names William Graves Sharp; William G. Sharp; Hon. William Graves Sharp
Countries US
Locations Mount Gilead, OH, Elyria, OH, Morrow county, OH, Lorain county, OH, Ohio
Occupations lawyer, manufacturer, politician, ambassador, author
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Accreditations
Affiliations Congress of the United States, Embassy of the United States to France
Family name
Birth date 1859-03-14
Death date 1922-11-17
Wikidata id Q8010125