Joseph Fenwick – 1st consular post in US History
France, Bordeaux, American Consulate
La Maison Fenwick, the first and oldest American Consulate in history, has occupied this site since 1790 in Bordeaux.
The building long ago took the name of the American occupant and chief tenant in 1790, Joseph Fenwick. He became the First U.S. Consul and was from a family with Maryland and South Carolina connections. The plaque, in French and English, reads… Joseph Fenwick Consul Bordeaux.
“Here lived Joseph Fenwick, who became the first American Consul in Bordeaux in 1790. Mayor Jacques Chaban-Delmas unveiled this plaque on November 26, 1990, commemorates the Bicentennial of the U.S. Consulate in Bordeaux, the oldest American Consulate in the world.”
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