Walker Fearn

Who is Walker Fearn?

John Walker Fearn was a Confederate and American diplomat.

Fearn, born in Huntsville, Alabama, was an 1851 graduate of Yale University. He spent most of the 1850s on the staffs of the American embassies in Belgium and Mexico, then joined the Confederate diplomatic corps when the Civil War broke out in 1861. After serving on unsuccessful missions to Spain, France, Russia, and Mexico, Fearn moved to New Orleans when the war was over to practice law.

From 1885 to 1889, Fearn served as the American minister to Serbia, Romania, and Greece. He later served as chief of the Department of Foreign Affairs for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

His daughter Mary married Serge Wolkonsky.