David Rowland Francis was an American politician and diplomat. He served in various positions including Mayor of St. Louis, the 27th governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was a Wilsonian Democrat.
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