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Cavendish Wells Cannon (February 1, 1895 – October 7, 1962) was a long-time United States foreign service officer and diplomat.

During World War II, Cavendish served as the Assistant Chief of the State Department's Division of Southern European Affairs. For a time Cannon's work took him to Syria.

He served as U.S. ambassador to Greece from 1953 to 1956 and ambassador to Morocco from 1956 to 1958. During the late 1940s Cannon served as ambassador to Yugoslavia Among his fellow ambassadors was the Czechoslovak Ambassador Josef Korbel (father of Madeleine Albright). Cannon spoke in favor of Korbel's pro-democratic leanings when he was trying to gain asylum in the United States. In 1948, he was the chair of the US delegation to the Danube River Conference of 1948.

Cannon was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

References

"Cavendish Wells Cannon". U. S. Department of State. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
the Problem of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina during World War II Archived May 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
Excerpt from journal of Eleanor Roosevelt, gwu.edu; accessed February 24, 2022.
Jones, Howard. "A New Kind of War", America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) pg. 126
Dobbs, Michael (March 15, 2000). Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 130, 137. ISBN 978-0-8050-5660-0. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
"Church Member Nominated Ambassador to Finland", Ensign, March 1975 pg. 78.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded byRichard C. Patterson, Jr.	United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1947–1949	Succeeded byGeorge V. Allen
Preceded byJames Hugh Keeley, Jr.	U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Syria 1950–1952	Succeeded byJames S. Moose, Jr.
Preceded byLincoln MacVeagh	United States Ambassador to Portugal 1952–1953	Succeeded byM. Robert Guggenheim
Preceded byJohn Emil Peurifoy	United States Ambassador to Greece 1953–1956	Succeeded byGeorge V. Allen
Preceded byWilliam J. Porter	United States Ambassador to Morocco 1956–1958	Succeeded byCharles W. Yost

v t e United States ambassadors to Greece
Kingdom of Greece (1868–1924)	Tuckerman J. Francis Read Schuyler Fearn Snowden Beale Alexander Rockhill Hardy C. Francis Jackson Pearson Moses Schurman Williams Droppers Capps
Second Hellenic Republic	Laughlin Skinner MacVeagh
Kingdom of Greece (1935–1973) Military junta (1967–1974)	MacVeagh Biddle Kirk MacVeagh Grady Peurifoy Cannon Allen Riddleberger Briggs Labouisse Talbot Tasca
Junta-declared Republic (1973–1974) Third Hellenic Republic (1974–present)	Tasca Kubisch McCloskey Stearns Keeley Sotirhos Niles Burns Miller Ries Speckhard Smith Pearce Pyatt Tsunis

v t e United States ambassadors to Portugal
Minister Plenipotentiary	Humphreys (Minister Resident) Smith Sumter Graham Dearborn (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
Chargé d'Affaires	Brent Kavanagh Barrow Rencher Hopkins Clay Haddock O'Sullivan
Minister Resident	O'Sullivan G. Morgan Harvey Shellabarger C. Lewis Moran Moran (chargé d'affaires)
Minister Resident/Consul General	Francis Richmond E. Lewis Loring Batcheller Pierce
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Caruth Townsend Irwin Loomis Bryan Gage E. Morgan Woods Birch Dearing South Caldwell Pell Fish Norweb
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Norweb Baruch Wiley MacVeagh Cannon Guggenheim Bonbright Elbrick Anderson Bennett Knight Scott Carlucci Bloomfield Holmes Shakespeare Rowell Briggs Bagley McGowan Palmer Hoffman Stephenson Katz Sherman Glass Levine

v t e Members of the political Cannon family
John Taylor (1808–1887) George Q. Cannon (1827–1901) Ann Cannon Woodbury (1832–1921) Angus M. Cannon (1834–1915) John Q. Cannon (1857–1931) Martha Hughes Cannon (1857–1932) Frank J. Cannon (1859–1933) Elizabeth Anne Wells Cannon (1859–1942) George Mousley Cannon (1861–1937) Joseph J. Cannon (1877–1945) Sylvester Q. Cannon (1877–1943) Charles Clarence Neslen (1879–1967) Quayle Cannon Sr. (1879–1950) James H. Cannon (1890–1950) John K. Cannon (1892–1955) Cavendish W. Cannon (1895–1962) Robert Milchrist Cannon (1901–1976) T. Quentin Cannon (1906–2004) Quayle Cannon Jr. (1906–1990) Ray Cannon Needham (1908–1979) Edwin Bennion Cannon (1910–1963) Evan J. Woodbury (1910–2001) Howard Cannon (1912–2002) Ralph S. Cannon (1912–2006) Edwin Q. Cannon (1918–2005) D. James Cannon (1919–1998) Russell A. Cannon (1928–2014) Theodore L. Cannon Jr. (1931–2009) David Kent Winder (1932–2009) Mark Wilcox Cannon (abt. 1936–) John C. Pingree (abt. 1942–) Joseph A. Cannon (1949–) Chris Cannon (1950–2024) David Nelson (1962–) Chet Cannon (1985–)

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