Later life Scruggs retired to Atlanta, Georgia, where he died July 18, 1912. He was buried in Westview Cemetery. Bibliography "Restriction of the Suffrage". The North American Review, vol. 139, issue 336 (1884) "Blundering American Diplomacy". The North American Review, vol. 145, issue 370 (September 1887)] British Aggressions in Venezuela: The Monroe Doctrine on Trial (pamphlet, 1895) Fallacies of the British Blue Book on the Venezuela Question (pamphlet, 1896) The Guyana Boundary Dispute: Important testimony by an English geographer. The Essequibo River recognized by England as the frontier line between Venezuela and British Guiana as late as 1822 (pamphlet, 1896) Lord Salisbury's mistakes (pamphlet, 1896) The Venezuelan question: British aggressions in Venezuela, or The Monroe doctrine on trial; Lord Salisbury's mistakes; Fallacies of the British "blue book" on the disputed boundary (book, collected works, 1896) Case of Venezuela: Brief concerning the question of boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana (book, 1898) The Colombian and Venezuelan Republics, with notes on other parts of Central and South America (book, 1900) The Monroe doctrine: Whence it came, what it is, and what it is not (pamphlet 1902) References Further reading Grenville, John A. S. and George Berkeley Young. Politics, Strategy, and American Diplomacy: Studies in Foreign Policy, 1873-1917 (1966) pp 125–57 on "The diplomat as propagandist: William Lindsey Scruggs, agent for Venezuela" External links United States Department of State website listing 1836 births 1912 deaths 1895 in the United States 19th-century American diplomats Ambassadors of the United States to Colombia Ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela People from Nashville, Tennessee Writers from Atlanta