Edwin Dun

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Edwin Dun
Portrait of Dun
United States Minister to Japan
In office July 14, 1893 – July 2, 1897
President	Grover Cleveland William McKinley
Preceded by	Frank Coombs
Succeeded by	Alfred Eliab Buck
Personal details
Born	(1848-06-19)June 19, 1848 Chillicothe, Ohio, United States
Died	May 15, 1931(1931-05-15) (aged 82) Tokyo, Japan
Relatives	Thomas Blakiston (brother-in-law) Josh Dun
Occupation	Agricultural consultant, rancher, diplomat

Edwin Dun (June 19, 1848 – May 15, 1931) was a rancher from Ohio who was employed as an o-yatoi gaikokujin in Hokkaidō by the Hokkaidō Development Commission (Kaitakushi) and advised the Japanese government on modernizing agricultural techniques during the Meiji modernization period.^[1] He served as United States envoy to Japan from 1893 to 1897.

Dun was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio and had studied at Miami University. After he inherited his father's ranch, he raised beef cattle and race horses, and wrote a number of papers on scientific methods in ranching.