American diplomat
Dabney Smith Carr (March 5, 1802 – March 24, 1854) was an American newspaper publisher, diplomat, and the grand-nephew of Thomas Jefferson , the third President of the United States.
He was born to Peter Carr and Hester Smith-Carr in Albemarle County, Virginia and was the grandson of Dabney Carr and Martha Jefferson Carr (Thomas Jefferson's sister). He married a woman named Sidney Nichols. He served as the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire from 1843 to 1849. Carr died in 1854 in Charlottesville, Virginia . He was interred at the family cemetery at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello , in Charlottesville.
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