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What happened to Kenesaw Mountain Landis in 1893?
Walter Q. Gresham, the new United States Secretary of State, named Kenesaw Mountain Landis his personal secretary in 1893.
Was Kenesaw Mountain Landis hired on as judge?
Personal secretary.
How long did Kenesaw Mountain Landis keep the position of personal secretary?
After Gresham's death in 1895, Keneshaw Mountain Landis refused an offer of an ambassadorship.

Question: Why did he decline?
Self-contained rewrite: Why did Kenesaw Mountain Landis decline the offer of ambassadorship?