career. He raised money to establish a golf course in Ankara, which became a "social center" for diplomatic circles. Throughout the remainder of his career, he raised funds to set up nine other golf courses in the Middle East, with one newspaper describing him as the "Johnny Appleseed of golf courses, sowing fairways in the most impossible places." He died of cancer in 1958, aged 64, less than a month before he was scheduled to retire on his 65th birthday. References Sources External links 1893 births 1958 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Italy Ambassadors of the United States to Syria Ambassadors of the United States to Lebanon Ambassadors of the United States to Iraq Ambassadors of the United States to Turkey Ambassadors of the United States to Czechoslovakia Ambassadors of the United States to Saudi Arabia Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen Deaths from cancer People from Buffalo, New York Ambassadors of the United States to North Yemen Wadsworth family United States Foreign Service personnel 20th-century American diplomats