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Mizner</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lansing_Bond_Mizner_(1825%E2%80%931893).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Lansing_Bond_Mizner_%281825%E2%80%931893%29.png" decoding="async" width="193" height="219" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="219" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1825-12-05</span>)</span>December 5, 1825<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Illinois" title="Monroe County, Illinois">Monroe County, Illinois</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 9, 1893<span style="display:none">(1893-12-09)</span> (aged 68)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Yountville,_California" title="Yountville, California">Yountville, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Attorney, politician, land developer, diplomat</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Addison_Mizner" title="Addison Mizner">Addison Mizner</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Wilson_Mizner" title="Wilson Mizner">Wilson Mizner</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Lansing_Bond_Mizner_(1825%E2%80%931893).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Signature_of_Lansing_Bond_Mizner_%281825%E2%80%931893%29.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="50" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="109" data-file-height="36" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lansing Bond Mizner</b> (December 5, 1825 – December 9, 1893)<sup id="cite_ref-Call_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Call-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician. Mizner served as President of the <a href="/wiki/California_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="California Senate">California Senate</a> and was US Minister (ambassador) to <a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a>, <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lansing_B._Mizner&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lansing B. Mizner was born on December 5, 1825, in <a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Illinois" title="Monroe County, Illinois">Monroe County, Illinois</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of Henry Caldwell Mizner, who died when Lansing was 4 years old. His stepfather, <a href="/wiki/James_Semple" title="James Semple">James Semple</a>, was fluent in the Spanish language and was appointed <a href="/wiki/Charg%C3%A9_d%27affaires" title="Chargé d'affaires">Chargé d'affaires</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_New_Granada" title="Republic of New Granada">Republic of New Granada</a> (present-day Colombia and Panama, and pieces of neighboring countries). The family lived in <a href="/wiki/Bogot%C3%A1,_Colombia" class="mw-redirect" title="Bogotá, Colombia">Bogotá, Colombia</a> for five years (1837—1842), during which Lansing also became fluent in Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-Curl_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curl-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 4">: 4 </span></sup> He studied at <a href="/wiki/Shurtleff_College" title="Shurtleff College">Shurtleff College</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lansing_B._Mizner&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He arrived in California by way of New Orleans and Panama May 20, 1843 (not 1849), settled at Benicia, and became a partner in the general merchandise company of Semple, Robinson & Co. He was admitted to the <a href="/wiki/Bar_(law)" title="Bar (law)">bar</a> the same year. At the age of 22 he joined the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>, and served in the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican War</a> on the staff of General Shields. <sup id="cite_ref-Call_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Call-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Society_of_California_Pioneers" title="Society of California Pioneers">Society of California Pioneers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Vickers_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vickers-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24">: 24 </span></sup> His adult home was in <a href="/wiki/Benicia,_California" title="Benicia, California">Benicia, California</a>, </p><p>He served as the first Collector of Customs for the Northern District of California (San Francisco to the Oregon border). When the state government was formed in 1849, he was elected the Associate Justice of the <a href="/wiki/Solano_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Solano County">Solano County</a> <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Sessions_(California)" title="Court of Sessions (California)">Court of Sessions</a>. He was elected as a California State Senator in the 1865 and 1867 <a href="/wiki/California_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="California Senate">California Senates</a>, and served as Chairman of the Commerce and Navigation and the Swamp Land Committees, and eventually President.<sup id="cite_ref-Call_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Call-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afterwards, he worked for <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Benjamin Harrison</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1888_United_States_presidential_election" title="1888 United States presidential election">1888 presidential campaign</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minister_to_Central_America">Minister to Central America</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lansing_B._Mizner&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Minister to Central America"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the administration of President Benjamin Harrison, Mizner was appointed in 1889 Minister to <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a>, in essence the ambassador to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala (where he was based), Honduras, and Nicaragua (<a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> at that time was part of <a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a>). He was fluent in Spanish. When he traveled to Guatemala to begin his duties he was accompanied by his sons, the future architect <a href="/wiki/Addison_Mizner" title="Addison Mizner">Addison Mizner</a> and future playwright <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Mizner" title="Wilson Mizner">Wilson Mizner</a>. He lasted in the job slightly more than a year.<sup id="cite_ref-Curl_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curl-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup> </p><p>Mizner's first rebuke, from an Acting Secretary of State, was for calling for a union of the five Central American republics for protection from the more powerful Mexico to the north and Colombia to the south (Mexico and Colombia had both protested). There was a complicated incident in which American arms were being shipped to <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a> (which had just had a <i><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a></i>), and Guatemala, having <a href="/wiki/Martial_law" title="Martial law">martial law</a>, objected. In July 1890, exiled Guatemalan General <a href="/wiki/Juan_Mart%C3%ADn_Barrundia" title="Juan Martín Barrundia">Juan Martín Barrundia</a> was on an American ship scheduled to stop at Guatemalan ports. Mizner, unable to communicate with Washington, agreed to the Guatemalan government's request he be seized. Resisting arrest, Barrundia was killed on this American ship by a bullet from one of the Guatemalan policemen who boarded the American ship. This was too much for the US government, and he was terminated in November 1890, by Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">James G. Blaine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Curl_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curl-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 8–9">: 8–9 </span></sup> President Benjamin Harrison justified Mizner's dismissal in his 1890 Annual Message.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> State Department papers also detail the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-daughter_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-daughter-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barrundia left a widow and several daughters, one of whom visited Mizner's office before his departure and shot at him.<sup id="cite_ref-daughter_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-daughter-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barrundia's widow Transito Hurtarte appealed to the Department of State for damages, which the US government refused to grant. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lansing_B._Mizner&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He built a house in Benicia and kept a small farm on what is now East L St. near First St. (where the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://benicialibrary.org">Benicia Public Library</a> is currently). He installed the first <a href="/wiki/Flush_toilet" title="Flush toilet">flush toilet</a> in Benicia, which the children would show off to their friends.<sup id="cite_ref-benicia_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benicia-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife was Ella Watson Mizner. He had seven children, one daughter Minnie, married to Horace Blanchard Chase, who later would found <a href="/wiki/Stag%27s_Leap_Winery" class="mw-redirect" title="Stag's Leap Winery">Stag's Leap Winery</a>, and six boys: William, Lansing, Edgar, the architect <a href="/wiki/Addison_Mizner" title="Addison Mizner">Addison</a>, Harvey, and <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Mizner" title="Wilson Mizner">Wilson</a>. 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