User:Amos1979/Jacob S. Haldeman

Jacob Samils Haldeman ( 1823 - 1889 ) served in the house of representatives and the senate. Haldeman served in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1850 to 1855, and from 1861 to 1864 was United States minister resident to Sweden and Norway. He was married to Caroline R Hummel, they had two daughters.

In 1861 Jacob Haldeman travelled to Europe and Stockholm with his family. In early 1864 Haldeman was recalled from his post. Although Haldeman was an official U.S. diplomat, he spoke quite candidly about his symphaties for the Confederacy, according to a letter from Swedish foreign minister Ludvig Manderström to Swedish minister Count Piper in 1864 [...] here he hasn't hidden his symphaties for the south and use a quite uncareful language"[...]. Haldeman was replaced by James Hepburn Campbell, a fellow Pennyslvanian and outspoken abolitionist.