Hugh Pitcairn

Hugh Pitcairn (August 16, 1845 – July 19, 1911)[1] served as the first United States consul general to Hamburg, German Empire, from 1903 to 1908.

[3] In 1846, he emigrated with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, where his uncle, Alexander Pitcairn, had started a woolens business.

[5] In 1875, Pitcairn purchased a half interest the Altoona Tribune, a Pennsylvania daily newspaper.

He was promoted by President Theodore Roosevelt to the post of consul general on January 5, 1903,[2] and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 12, 1903.

[2][8] He retired from the consulate in November 1908 to the reported regret of the citizens of Hamburg, in order to devote his full attention to the practice of medicine and his duties as partial owner of the Altoona Tribune.