Dan Berry (Napoleon's World)

Daniel Patrick Berry (born February 4, 1941) is a retired American politician and diplomat. Berry served for six years as the US Representative for Kentucky's 4th District, retiring in 1986 rather than face a stern challenge again from Democrat Pat Mulloy, though he was succeeded by State Senator George Floyd. He would be appointed Ambassador to Malaya in 1987 by President Elizabeth Shannon thanks in large part to his time spent as a missionary in Sumatra in the early 1970s on behalf of the Catholic Church, and would continue to serve in that role through the Redford Presidency. He resigned his ambassadorship in December of 1992 in anticipation of the incoming John D. Burwin administration. In 1995, he was the Nationalist candidate for Governor of Kentucky, and was considered a favorite initially due to the 1994 wave election the prior year. However, he would lose to Secretary of State Bob Babbage, the Democrat, by 3,000 votes. It would be his last election - he would later serve as Chief of Staff to Senator Mike Longwell in 1997 and then serve as Ambassador to Minangkabau from 1998-2001. He also served on a League of Nations commission that investigated the mid-1990s Dayak genocide in Banjar and the Japanese East Indies, where he co-authored the report finding that the Banjarese had massacred 450,000 Dayaks and the Japanese, through neglect and their own ethnic cleansing campaign, had been responsible for the deaths of an additional 200,000.