Ogden H. Hammond

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Ogden H. Hammond
United States Ambassador to Spain
In office
December 21, 1925 – October 13, 1929
PresidentCalvin Coolidge
Preceded byAlexander P. Moore
Succeeded byIrwin B. Laughlin
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
In office
1914–1915
Personal details
Born
Ogden Haggerty Hammond

(1869-10-13)October 13, 1869
John Hammond (nephew)
EducationPhillips Exeter Academy
Alma materYale University

Ogden Haggerty Hammond (October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956) was an American businessman, politician and diplomat who served as

United States Ambassador to Spain from 1925 to 1929. He was the father of Millicent Fenwick, a four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
.

Early life

Hammond was born in 1869 in

John H. Hammond II (1910–1987).[1]

The Hammond family moved to

Chicago, Illinois when he was four, and then to Saint Paul, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin.[2] He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Yale University in 1893.[3]

Career

After graduating from Yale, he returned to Superior where he served as a member of the Board of Aldermen for two years.[3]

Hammond worked as an

New Jersey Republican State Committee.[3]

RMS Lusitania

Photograph of Hammond

On May 1, 1915, Hammond and his wife Mary boarded the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania in New York, en route to Liverpool. Mary intended to help victims of World War I and assist the Red Cross in establishing a hospital in France. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, and in the aftermath Ogden survived the sinking and Mary did not.[2] He established the Mary Stevens Hammond Memorial Home for Destitute Children in Hoboken in her honor.[4]

Diplomatic career and later years

In 1925, Calvin Coolidge appointed Hammond to be United States Ambassador to Spain. He served until 1929, when Herbert Hoover appointed the new ambassador, Irwin B. Laughlin. The Spanish Royal Court awarded him the Order of Isabella the Catholic for his public service.[2]

In 1931, Hammond was named president and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken. He became vice president and director of the First National Bank of Jersey City in 1934, retiring in 1950.

Personal life

On a visit to Bernardsville, Hammond met Mary Picton Stevens (1885–1915). They were married in Hoboken on April 8, 1907, their marriage lasting up until Mary's death in the sinking of the Lusitania. Mary was the daughter of John Stevens (1856–1895), oldest son of Stevens Institute of Technology founder Edwin Augustus Stevens and grandson of inventor John Stevens, and Mary Marshall McGuire (1850–1905).[5][6][7] The Hammonds settled in a forty-seven-room mansion in Bernardsville in 1908.[2] Hammond and his first wife had three children:

On December 18, 1917, Hammond remarried, to Marguerite "Daisy" (

née McClure) Howland (1876–1969), the daughter of New York attorney David McClure and the widow of Dulany Howland.[11][12][13] Her son, McClure "Mac" Meredith Howland (1906–1985), became Hammond's stepson.[14]

Hammond died in 1956 at his home in Manhattan at the age of 87.[4]

Descendants

Through his daughter Millicent, he was the grandfather of Mary Stevens Fenwick (1934–1987)[9] and Hugh Hammond Fenwick (1937–2002).[15]

Through his son Ogden, he was the grandfather of Edythe (née Hammond) Lurie and Madeline (née Hammond) Ilah Alatas of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Dr. Ogden H. Hammond Jr., a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[10]

References

  1. New York Times
    . April 6, 1899.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Mr. Ogden Haggerty Hammond, Saloon Class Passenger". The Lusitania Resources. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  3. ^ a b c Scannell's New Jersey first citizens. Vol. 1. J.J. Scannell. 1917. pp. 228–9.
  4. ^ a b "Ogden Hammond, Former Envoy, 87". The New York Times. 1956-10-30.
  5. ^ Cox, Henry Miller (1912). The Cox Family in America. p. 227.
  6. ^ "John Stevens". The New York Times. 1895-01-22.
  7. ^ "Mrs. Mary M. Stevens Hyde". The New York Times. 1905-05-03.
  8. ^ "Countess Roberti, Wife of Diplomat". The New York Times. 1958-02-24.
  9. ^ a b Lambert, Bruce. "Millicent Fenwick, 82, Dies; Gave Character to Congress", The New York Times. September 17, 1992. Accessed March 21, 2011.
  10. ^ a b "Ogden H. Hammond, Financier, Dies in Winchester, Va., at Age 64". The New York Times. 1976-10-20.
  11. ^ "Mrs. Howland Weds Ogden H. Hammond". The New York Times. 1917-12-19.
  12. ISBN 9780806350875
    .
  13. ^ "Mrs. Ogden H. Hammond". The New York Times. 1969-01-07.
  14. ISBN 9780813532318
    .
  15. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths FENWICK, HUGH HAMMOND". The New York Times. 17 March 2002. Retrieved 23 September 2017.

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