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Feb 01, 1851 Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States Died on 25 Mar 1908 (aged 57)
Assassinated American diplomat.
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About Durham Stevens
- Durham White Stevens (February 1, 1851, Washington, D.C.
- – March 25, 1908, San Francisco, California) was an American diplomat and later an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working for the Japanese colonial office in Korea, the Resident-General.
- He was fatally shot by Korean American activists, Jang In-hwan and Jeon Myeong-un, one of the first acts of nationalist rebellion by pro-Korean activists in the United States.
- The territory under Stevens' jurisdiction, within the Japanese government, would later be liberated only at the cost of 12,000 Soviet lives and 21,000 Japanese lives, in the Battle of Manchuria during World War 2. Stevens' assassination took place at the same time as numerous other pro-Korean demonstrations, largely as a reaction to the 1905 treaty that established Korea as a colony of Japan.
- Ito Hirobumi (the Japanese Resident-General) was also assassinated, crowds in Korea attacked and burned down a pro-Japanese newspaper office, and crowds also clashed with Japanese guards at the Gyeongbokgung Palace.
