Thomas R. Jernigan

Thomas Roberts Jernigan (1847–1920) was US consul in Kobe, Japan (1885–1889), and later US consul general in Shanghai, China (1893–1897).

After leaving the diplomatic service he was Standard Oil Company's attorney in China, and served as chairman of the Shanghai International Settlement.

[3] He wrote a number of works on Chinese economics.

Jernigan died in 1920 and was buried on a hill overlooking Nanjing.

He is remembered on a plaque in Raleigh, North Carolina (corner of W Cabarrus and S McDowell on the north west side of the Raleigh Convention Centre.

United States Consul General Thomas Sammons hands a cheque to Edward Isaac Ezra to purchase the US Consulate premises in Shanghai in 1916. Jernigan, standing in between Sammons and Ezra, acted for the consulate.