page_title: Thomas Sammons (consul)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Sammons (consul) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph taken in 1916 showing American Consul General Sammons handing a check to Mr Edward Ezra in payment of the American Government site at Shanghai and receiving in return a deed to the property. Also in the picture standing between Ezra and Sammons are Mrs C.S. Lobingier (wife of the Judge of the United States Court for China and Thomas R. Jernigan, former US Consul General in Shanghai.
context_page_description: Thomas N. Sammons was an American diplomat who served for many years in Korea, Japan and China before retiring as United States Consul General to Australia.
context_section_description: In 1905, Sammons was appointed United States Consul-General in Manchuria, China, being first assigned to Newchwang (now Yingkou) and then Mukden (now Shenyang) and Antung (now Dandong). He was involved with the negotiations relating to the opening of the ports under the Treaty between the United States and China for the extension of the commercial relations between them signed in 1903 as a follow up to the Boxer Protocol. From 1907 to 1909 he was US consul-general to Korea and between 1909 and 1913 he was US Consul-General in Yokohama, Japan. Sammons was appointed United States Consul General in Shanghai, serving from 1914 to 1919 when he was transferred to be US consul-general in Melbourne, the then capital of Australia. In 1921, he was slated to become United States Minister to China, but the appointment did not proceed.
  He retired in 1925 due to ill health.
caption: Sammons handing a check to Mr Edward Ezra in 1916 in payment for the site of the US Consulate in Shanghai.
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