John Wallace Riddle Jr. (July 12, 1864 – December 8, 1941) was an American diplomat. His first diplomatic assignment was as agent/consul general in Egypt (1904–1905).[1] He was then sent to Romania and Serbia in 1905 to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (residing in Bucharest[1]), followed by postings as U.S. ambassador to Russia (1907–1909) and ambassador to Argentina (1922–1925).[1][2]
John Wallace Riddle Jr. | |
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 John W. Riddle, photo by Pirie MacDonald | |
| United States Ambassador to Argentina | |
| In office March 8, 1922 – May 28, 1925 | |
| President | Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge |
| Preceded by | Frederic Jesup Stimson |
| Succeeded by | Peter Augustus Jay |
| United States Ambassador to Russia | |
| In office February 8, 1907 – September 8, 1909 | |
| President | Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
| Preceded by | George von Lengerke Meyer |
| Succeeded by | William Woodville Rockhill |
| United States Minister to Serbia | |
| In office May 7, 1906 – January 23, 1907 | |
| President | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | John Brinkerhoff Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Horace G. Knowles |
| United States Minister to Romania | |
| In office October 3, 1905 – January 23, 1907 | |
| President | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | John Brinkerhoff Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Horace G. Knowles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 12, 1864 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | December 8, 1941 (aged 77) Farmington, Connecticut |
| Spouse | |
| Parent(s) | John Wallace Riddle Sr. Rebecca Blair McClure |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Columbia Law School Sciences Po Collège de France |
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Personal life
editBorn in Philadelphia,[3] Riddle was the son of John Wallace Riddle, Sr. and Rebecca Blair McClure; he was born after his father's untimely death. A few years later, Rebecca McClure became the second wife of Charles Eugene Flandrau and relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota where Riddle grew up alongside two half-brothers and two step-sisters.[4] He graduated from Harvard in 1887, attended law school at Columbia through 1890, and studied international law, diplomacy, and languages at École Libre des Sciences Politiques and the Collège de France in Paris through 1893.[5]
In 1916 Riddle married American architect and heiress Theodate Pope Riddle.[6]
He died in Farmington, Connecticut, at the age of 77.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c "John Wallace Riddle". Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
- ^ "U.S. Ministers and Ambassadors to Russia". Embassy of the United States, Moscow Russia. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2009.
- ^ a b "JOHN W. RIDDLE, 77, EX-DIPLOMAT, DIES; Envoy to Russia, 1906-09, and Argentina, 1921-25, Had Held U.S. Post in Turkey". The New York Times. December 9, 1941. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
- ^ Haeg, Lawrence Peter (2004). In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau. University of Iowa Press.
- ^ Derby, George and James Terry White (1910). The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. Vol. 14. New York: James T. White & Company.
- ^ "Theodate Pope Riddle". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2009.