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Huntington Wilson

Francis Mairs Huntington Wilson (December 15, 1875-December 31, 1946) was a United States diplomat and author who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913.

Biography

Huntington Wilson was born in

A.B.
in 1897.

After college, Wilson joined the

Chargé d’Affaires in 1901. He married Lucy Wortham James
in 1904. The couple would divorce in 1915.

Wilson returned to the United States in 1906, becoming

Third Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, D.C.
, and the Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Consular and Diplomatic Service.

With the outbreak of the

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire. He was also sent on a mission to Argentina
.

Returning to the U.S. again in 1909, Wilson became the

Secretary of State Philander C. Knox. Knox, in addition to being ignorant of foreign affairs, was very lax about his official duties, and Wilson was, in his own words, "frequently left in charge of the Department for months at a time."[1] In this capacity, Wilson was responsible for drawing up and implementing a reorganization of the United States Department of State. Wilson attempted to retire due to factors inside the State Department but was persuaded to remain for another two years.[2]

Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia. There, he wrote for the Public Ledger and the Evening Bulletin. He also began writing books at this time, with his published titles including Stultitia (1914), The Peril of Hifalutin (1918), Money and the Price Level (1932), and Memoirs of an Ex-Diplomat (1945). He became an hereditary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati in 1908. He married his second wife, Lucille O'Hara Powell, in December 1915; they were divorced in 1917.[3][4]

He worked briefly for the National City Bank in New York City, before becoming president of a Waterbury, Connecticut, company that made signaling devices. He then returned to Philadelphia, serving as director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum from 1928 to 1932. Wilson married his third wife, Hope Butler of New York City, in 1925.

Wilson died in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 31, 1946.

Works by Huntington Wilson

References

  1. ISBN 0-674-92276-X
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  2. ^ Huntington-Wilson, Francis (7 March 1911). "Letter from Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to William Howard Taft, March 7, 1911". Other Correspondence.
  3. ^ "Huntington Wilson Weds". New York Times. Dec 21, 1915.
  4. ^ "Huntington Wilson Married in Zurich". New York Times. September 29, 1925.
  • "F.M.H. Wilson Dies; Former Diplomat", New York Times, Jan. 1, 1947
Government offices
Preceded by
Herbert Henry Davis Peirce
Third Assistant Secretary of State

July 2, 1906 – December 30, 1908 		Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Assistant Secretary of State
March 5, 1909 – March 13, 1913 		Succeeded by
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