William Alvah Rublee

William Alvah Rublee was an American Consul General, journalist and editor.
Rublee was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Rublee's father was Horace Rublee, who was also a journalist and ambassador. The younger Rublee attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Rublee returned to Milwaukee after finishing law school, becoming the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel political editor. Eventually he became the vice president and director. Benjamin Harrison appointed him Consul General of the United States to Prague on June 6, 1890. He retired on November 9, 1893. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt appointed him Consul General at Hong Kong, Havana, Cuba, Vienna, Austria, and then again at Hong Kong.
Rublee died in Hong Kong at the age of 49 on April 15, 1910 of peritonitis. His remains were repatriated to Seattle, Washington on a steamer and then taken to Madison, Wisconsin for burial.