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John E. Zimmerman

Diplomat

Centurion, 1865–1872

Full Name John Edward Zimmerman

Born 6 September 1832 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 22 February 1874 in Alexandria, Egypt

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Augustus R. Macdonough, Frederick E. Gibert, and William Oliver Stone

Elected 3 June 1865 at age thirty-two