Thomas Nelson Page
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Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1,1922) was a lawyer and American writer.
During World War I, he served as the United States ambassador to Italy under President Woodrow Wilson's administration.
Personal life
On July 28, 1886, he married Anne Seddon Bruce. She died of a throat hemorrhage on December 21, 1888. He married Florence Lathrop Field, a widowed sister-in-law of retailer Marshall Field, on June 6, 1893 (her husband Henry Field died less than three years ago). Florence, Page's second wife, was a member of the prestigious Barbour family, making him a member by marriage.
Page was instrumental in urging the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to mobilize archaeological sites in Yorktown and elsewhere, especially in Virginia's Historic Triangle, from loss to development. In 1900, he was instrumental in obtaining federal funds to build a seawall in Jamestown, safeguarding a site where the remains of James Fort were later discovered by archaeologists working on the Jamestown Rediscovery project.
He died in 1922 in Hanover, Virginia, at the age of 69.
Career
He served as a Richmond attorney from 1876 to 1893, as well as began his writing career. Page, a dissatisfied with the Southern legal system, left his profession completely and moved with his wife to Washington, D.C. in 1893.
He wrote eighteen books that were collected and published in 1912. The plantation tradition of Southern writing, which told of an idealized life before the Civil War, featured contented slaves serving for beloved masters and their families. The Antebellum South was viewed as a symbol of moral fidelity, and pages often vilified the Gilded Age's reforms as a sign of moral decline.
In Ole Virginia, Page's quintessential collection of short stories, depicting the Antebellum South. "Marse Chan" was his most well-known short-story from the collection. Because of Page's ability to capture southern dialect, "Marse Chan" became a hit. The Burial of the Guns (1894), his second short-story collection. Page became renowned amongst the Capital elite as a result of his literary success, and he was regularly invited to socialize with politicians from around the country. He founded a library in Montpelier, Virginia, in honor of his wife, Florence Lathrop Page, during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Page was named as the United States ambassador to Italy for six years between 1913 and 1919 under President Woodrow Wilson. In Italy, he was a fan of the Czechoslovak Legion. Despite being untrained in Italian and lacking no expertise in government, Page was determined to do a good job. He later became Italian, developed positive working relationships with Italian government officials, and wrote an excellent article on the Italian state during World War I. During World War II, Page managed to maintain and enhance American-Italian relations, as well as offering a sympathetic ear to the Italian and Triple Entente causes in the US government. Page resigned his position in 1919 after a tumultuous dispute with President Wilson over the terms of the Versailles Treaty, in which he argued for enhanced Italian benefits. Italy and the World War (1920) is his memoir of his military service in the United Kingdom.
Page continued to write for the remainder of his years after returning to his Oakland, Virginia, home.