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Find A Grave, database and images (accessed ), memorial page for Cordelia Drexel Biddle Robertson (19 Apr 1898–25 Nov 1984), Find A Grave Memorial no. 23527864, citing Southampton Cemetery, Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA; Maintained by a2 (contributor 46812011). Anthony Joseph Drexel Sr. (September 13, 1826 – June 30, 1893) was an American banker who played a major role in the rise of modern global finance after the American Civil War. As the dominant partner of Drexel & Co. Of Philadelphia, he founded Drexel, Morgan & Co (later J.P. Morgan & Co.) in New York in 1871 with J. May 23, 2018 Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1897–1961), also known as A. Drexel Biddle, Jr. Or Tony Biddle, was a wealthy socialite who became a diplomat of the United States, and served in the United States Army during World War I and after World War II, reaching the rank of major general. Drexel Biddle, M.D.- doctor of mayhem-is teaching this war's crop of leathernecks the three B's-bayonet, bowie knife and bare hands, and there's nothing great-grandfatherly about the way he explains the better methods of fracturing arms, legs and skulls.
Biddle Sr. in 1918 | |
Born | October 1, 1874 |
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Died | May 27, 1948 (aged 73) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Resting place | The Woodlands Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Spouse(s) | Cordelia Rundell Bradley |
Children | Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. Livingston Ludlow Biddle Cordelia Drexel Biddle |
Parent(s) | Edward Biddle III Emilie Taylor Drexel |
Biddle as a boxer in 1909
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle I (1874–1948) was an eccentric millionaire whose fortune allowed him to pursue theatricals, self-published writing, athletics, and Christianity on a full-time basis.[1]
He was the man upon whom the book My Philadelphia Father and the play and film The Happiest Millionaire were based.[2] He trained men in hand-to-hand combat in both World War I and World War II,[3] was a fellow of the American Geographical Society and founded a movement called 'Athletic Christianity' that eventually attracted 300,000 members around the world.[4][5] A 1955 Sports Illustrated article called him 'boxing's greatest amateur' as well as a 'major factor in the re-establishment of boxing as a legal and, at that time, estimable sport.'[6]
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Early life[edit]
He was born on October 1, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Edward Biddle II and Emily Drexel.[7] He was grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel, and great-grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle.[8] Biddle was a graduate of Germany's Heidelberg University.[9]
Career[edit]
An officer in the United States Marine Corps, Biddle was an expert in close-quarters fighting and the author of Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat, a book on combat methods, including knives and empty-hand skills, training both the United States Marine Corps in two world wars and special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He can be seen training Marines in the RKO short documentary Soldiers of the Sea. He was considered not just an expert in fighting, but also a pioneer of United States Marine Corps training in the bayonet and hand-to-hand combat. He based his style on fencing, though this approach was sometimes criticized as being unrealistic for military combat.[10]
Having joined the Marines in 1917 at the age of 41, he also convinced his superiors to include boxing in Marine Corps recruit training.[11] In 1919, he was promoted to the rank of major, and became a lieutenant colonel in 1934. In Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, right outside of Philadelphia, Biddle opened a military training facility, where he trained 4,000 men. His training included long hours of calisthenics and gymnastics, and taught skills such as machete, saber, dagger, and bayonet combat, as well as hand grenade use, boxing, wrestling, savate and jiujitsu.[11] He also served two years in the National Guard.
A keen boxer, Biddle sparred with Jack Johnson and taught boxing to Gene Tunney.[6] He even hosted 'boxing teas' in his home, where other boxers would spar a couple of rounds with him and then join the family for dinner. A February 1909 match with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was attended by society leaders including women in elegant evening gowns.[12]
He served as a judge in the fight between Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard on 4 July 1919.
On February 5, 1920, Biddle, as chairman of the Army Navy and Civilian Board of Boxing Control of New York, became a member the International Boxing Union.[13]
Writings[edit]
Biddle also worked in and on periodicals. He spent time as a sports reporter for the Public Ledger, and jokingly referred to himself as 'the poorest and richest reporter in Philadelphia'. He also revived the Philadelphia Sunday Graphic for a short interval, before it was forced to fold, and founded a short-lived 'society weekly'–type publication, The People. After organizing the also short-lived Drexel Biddle Publishing House, he acted as its head for two years.[9]
Books written by Biddle include:
- A dual rôle: and other stories. The Warwick Book Publishing Company. 1894.
- The Madeira Islands. Philadelphia: Drexel, Biddle & Bradley Publishing Company. 1896.
- Shantytown Sketches. Philadelphia: Drexel, Biddle & Bradley Publishing Company. 1897.
- The Froggy Fairy Book (1896) and The Second Froggy Fairy Book (1900) Drexel, Biddle & Bradley publishing company
- The Flowers of Life. Philadelphia: Drexel, Biddle & Bradley Publishing Company. 1897.
- Word for Word and Letter for Letter; a biographical romance. Gay & Bird. 1898.
- Do or Die: A Supplementary Manual on Individual Combat. U.S. Marine Corps. 1937. (reprinted 1944 with new material, reprinted 1975)
Personal life[edit]
In 1895, he married Cordelia Rundell Bradley. Together, they had:
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. (1897–1961), who married Mary Duke (1887–1960). They were the parents of Mary Duke Biddle (1920–2012) and Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle
- Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1898–1984), who married Angier Buchanan Duke (1884–1923), the son of Benjamin Newton Duke. They were the parents of Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995) and Anthony Drexel Duke (1918–2014).[14]
- Livingston Ludlow Biddle (1899–1981), who married Kate Raboteau Page (b. 1903), daughter of Robert N. Page. They were the parents of Livingston Ludlow Biddle III.[15]
He died May 27, 1948, from a cerebral hemorrhage and uremic poisoning[3][9][16] and is interred at the Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.[17]
Legacy[edit]
His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, worked with Kyle Crichton (father of Robert Crichton) to write a novel based on her family in 1955.[18] In 1956, it was made into a play starring Walter Pidgeon.[2] In 1967 a musical film based on the story, The Happiest Millionaire, was the last musical film to have personal involvement from Walt Disney. Biddle was played by Fred MacMurray in the film.[19]
References[edit]
- ^p.253 Baltzell, Edward Digby Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class 1958 Free Press
- ^ ab'The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan'. Time magazine. December 3, 1956. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
- ^ ab'Col. A. J. Biddle Sr. Dead at Age of 73. Trained Men in Two World Wars for Hand-to-Hand Combat. Sponsored Boxing Groups'. The New York Times. May 28, 1948. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^https://archive.org/stream/shantytownsketches00biddiala/shantytownsketches00biddiala_djvu.txt
- ^'Foreign Service: Athletic Christian'. Time magazine. August 5, 1935. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ^ ab'Events & Discoveries'. Sports Illustrated. May 9, 1955. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ^The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, v.7, 1897
- ^'Letters to the editor'. Life magazine. October 25, 1943. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ^ abcPhiladelphia Inquirer, Friday Morning, 28 May 1948
- ^James N. Wright (April 1940). 'On the Art of Hand to Hand: An Interview with Col. A. J. Drexel Biddle, USMCR'. Leatherneck Magazine.
- ^ abJoseph R. Svinth (December 2001). 'Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB Pioneer'. Journal of Non-Lethal Combatives.
- ^'Women See Biddle Box: Bout with 'Jack' O'Brien for Society Friends at Philadelphia'(PDF). The New York Times. 24 February 1909. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^'Le congrès de l'International Boxing Union'. Le Temps (in French). February 6, 1920. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
- ^'Angier Buchanan Duke'. Duke University. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
- ^'Livingston Ludlow Biddle, III'. Our Family Tree. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^Karl Schuon (1963). U S Marine Corps Biographical Dictionary. New York: Franklin Watts. pp. 16–17.
- ^'Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle'. www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^Kyle Crichton; Cordelia Drexel Biddle (1955). My Philadelphia Father. Doubleday.
- ^The Happiest Millionaire on IMDb
Further reading[edit]
- The Washington Post; August 17, 1933 'Helen Avis Howard Engaged To Anthony J. Drexel Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Clinton Howard, of Atlanta, have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Helen Avis Howard, to Mr. Anthony Joseph Drexel 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. of Philadelphia.'
- Time; June 4, 1948 'Died. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 73, muscular Christian, father of the wartime ambassador to the governments in exile; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Syosset, N.Y. He founded the Drexel Biddle Bible Classes in 1907 (their curriculum of fighting-&-praying ultimately attracted 200,000 members), taught jujitsu and dirty fighting to Marines in both World War.'
- The New York Times; October 14, 2004 'Nicholas Duke Biddle, 83, Scion of Wealth Who Helped the Poor. Nicholas Duke Biddle, scion of two prominent American families who helped refugees from Cuba and Caribbean, dies at age 83. Mr. Biddle was originally named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, after his father, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a prominent diplomat.'
External links[edit]
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Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. | |
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Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | |
In office September 17, 1941 – December 1, 1943 | |
President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Wilbur J. Carr |
Succeeded by | Laurence A. Steinhardt |
Personal details | |
Born | December 17, 1897 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Died | November 13, 1961 (aged 63) Washington, D.C. |
Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
Nationality | United States of America |
Spouse(s) | Mary Lillian Duke Margaret Thompson Schulze Margaret Atkinson Loughborough |
Children | Mary Duke Biddle Margaret Biddle Nicholas Duke Biddle (originally Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III) |
Parents | Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. |
Occupation | U.S. Army general, diplomat |
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (1897–1961), also known as A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr. or Tony Biddle, was a wealthy socialite who became a diplomat of the United States, and served in the United States Army during World War I and after World War II, reaching the rank of major general.
BiographyEdit
Biddle was the son of millionaire Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1874–1948), and Cordelia Rundell Bradley (1873–1947). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1897.His father, grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel and great-grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle was an eccentric boxing fan. When he was ten years old, the younger Biddle was in an exhibition match with Bob Fitzsimmons, who of course knocked him into a wall with a punch traveling about two inches.[1] He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire but never attended college.[2]
Biddle married Mary Lillian Duke, a tobacco heiress, on June 16, 1915.[3] They divorced in 1931 after having two children: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012) and Nicholas Duke Biddle (1921–2004), who was initially named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, only to have his mother change his name following the divorce.[4] His second wife, whom he married in 1931 (later divorced), was Margaret Thompson Schulze, the only child of mining magnate William Boyce Thompson; by this marriage he had two stepchildren, (Margaret) Boyce Schulze and Theodore Schulze Jr, as well as a son, given the name Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, who died at birth.[5] He married as his third wife, in 1946, Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, the former wife of William Ellery Loughborough and had two children, Margaret Biddle and Anthony Biddle III; after Biddle's death, she married, as her fourth husband, Colonel Edwinston Robbins.
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In World War I he first enlisted as a private, and was promoted to rank of captain. In the 1920s he engaged in several business ventures, which were known as social successes but financial failures. For example, he managed Belgian boxer René deVos, and invested in the St. Regis Hotel. A party he held for the boxer at the hotel was marked by the loss of many bottles of fine champagne (at great expense due to prohibition in the United States). 'Guests' even tried to wheel out the piano before it was retrieved.[2]
Biddle also made a deal to rent part of Central Park in New York City and open an expensive nightclub called The Casino.[6]After the Wall Street Crash of 1929 many of his investments failed. The Casino was raided and shut down.In 1931 he and other directors of the bankrupt Sonora Products Corporation of America (formerly Acoustic Products Company, in the phonograph and radio business) were sued by the Irving Trust Company. The directors were accused of diverting profits from stock sales into their own accounts. A district court acquitted the defendants, but was reversed on appeal.[7][8]
From business to diplomacyEdit
After Biddle was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Norway on July 22, 1935, he settled the Irving case out of court to avoid a bond required before leaving the country to assume the post.[9] He presented his credentials on September 7, 1935. It was widely suspected he was a political appointee resulting from his support of the Democratic Party and George Howard Earle III, its 1934 successful candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. However, his social skills made him and his wife ideally suited to being a diplomat.[2][10]
On May 4, 1937 he was promoted to Ambassador to Poland and presented his credentials in Warsaw, Poland on June 2, 1937.[11] In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, which was a major cause of World War II. After Biddle's house was hit with bomb fragments, his family and embassy staff fled to various temporary quarters.[12] After the escape, he joined the Polish government in exile in France until June 1940, when he returned to the US after France was invaded.On February 11, 1941 he also commissioned to the governments-in-exile of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Yugoslavia.Biddle arrived in London on March 14, 1941, and continued as ambassador through 1943.[11]
A. J. Drexel Biddle Jr
In January 1944 Biddle resigned from the state department and joined the Army as lieutenant colonel to serve on the staff of Dwight Eisenhower. His contacts with 'underground' moverments and free military units in occupied nations provided intelligence for the planning of operation Overlord, the allied invasion.[13] He continued on Eisenhower's staff supervising European reconstruction after the war ended.In 1955 he resigned from the Army to become Adjutant General of the Pennsylvania National Guard.[14]
Biddle was known as a fashion plate.On October 4, 1943, he appeared on the cover of Life magazine magazine.[15]The one published picture of Biddle without his impeccable suit was when he had to pack in a hurry to escape German bombers in Poland via Romania.[12]He was recognized in 1960 by George Frazier as one of the best dressed men in the US, on a short list with such stars as Fred Astaire. He was noted for his small number of fine custom-made suits[16] and his horizontlly striped starched Charvet Place Vendôme|Charvet shirts.[17]
He died November 13, 1961, in Washington, D.C. at the Walter Reed Army Hospital.[18] He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. His cenotaph is at The Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia.[19]
LegacyEdit
His sister Cordelia Drexel Biddle wrote a book with Kyle Crichton about the family, focusing on her marriage with Angier Buchanan Duke who was the brother of Anthony's first wife. It was made into a play and the 1967 musical film The Happiest Millionaire.He was portrayed by Paul Petersen in the film.[20]His nephew Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995) also became a diplomat.[21][22]
A&j Drexel Biddle Jr
Diplomatic postsEdit
- U.S. Minister to:
- Norway, 1935–37, 1941–42
- Netherlands, 1941–42
- Yugoslavia, 1941
- Czechoslovakia, 1941–43
- Greece, 1941–42
- U.S. Ambassador to:
- Poland, 1937–43
- Belgium, 1941–43
- Netherlands, 1942–43
- Norway, 1942–43
- Yugoslavia, 1942
- Greece, 1942–43
- Czechoslovakia, 1943
- Spain, 1961
LawsuitEdit
- Biddle v. Irving Trust Company, 294 U.S. 708, 55 S.Ct. 405, 79 L.Ed. 1243 (1935)
ReferencesEdit
- ↑'Letters to the editor'. Life magazine. October 25, 1943. p. 2. http://books.google.com/books?id=BVcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑ 2.02.12.2Noel F. Busch (October 4, 1943). 'Ambassador Biddle: As multiple envoy to governments-in-exile, he is foremost U.S. expert on postwar plans and problems of Europe's courageous little nations'. Life magazine. pp. 106–114, 117–120. http://books.google.com/books?id=PlcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA107. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑'Miss Duke's bridal party: Plans for Her Marriage to A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., on June 16' (PDF). New York Times. May 13, 1915. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0E13FC3E5A15738DDDAA0994DD405B858DF1D3. Retrieved March 20, 2011. 'Plans have been completed for the wedding of Miss Mary Lillian Duke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin N. Duke, and A. J. Dexter Biddle, Jr., son of Mr. aand Mrs. A. J. Dester Biddle of Philadelphia, which is to take place on Wednesday afternoon, June 16 at 3 o'clock.'
- ↑Douglas Martin (October 14, 2004). 'Nicholas Duke Biddle, 83, Scion of Wealth Who Helped the Poor, Dies'. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/obituaries/14biddle.html. Retrieved March 16, 2011. 'Nicholas Duke Biddle, a scion of two prominent American families who helped refugees from Cuba and other Caribbean countries, died on Monday in Madrid. He was 83. The cause was a heart attack, his cousin Tony Duke said.'
- ↑'Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Ex-Envoy, Dies at 97'. August 31, 1967. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C14FD3E5B107B93C3A91782D85F438685F9.
- ↑'The 1920s: The Casino'. Central Park History web site. http://centralparkhistory.com/timeline/timeline_1920_casino.html. Retrieved March 21, 2011. Excerpt from The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar ISBN 978-0-8014-9751-3
- ↑'Business & Finance: Suits'. Time magazine. July 20, 1931. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742073-1,00.html. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑'Irving Trust Co. v. Deutsch: Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1934 73 F.2d 121'. http://lawschool.courtroomview.com/acf_cases/9352-irving-trust-co-v-deutsch. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑'Foreign Service: Athletic Christian'. Time magazine. August 5, 1935. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,711672,00.html. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑'Do you know these U.S. Ambassadors?'. Life magazine. November 28, 1938. p. 25. http://books.google.com/books?id=Yk0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑ 11.011.1'Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (1897–1961)'. Biography by office of the Historian. US Department of State. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110319205320/http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/biddle-anthony-joseph-drexel-jr. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑ 12.012.1'U.S. Ambassador Bidle flees Poland after a 250-mile race against death from low-flying German warplanes'. Life magazine. November 28, 1938. p. 29. http://books.google.com/books?id=RUIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
- ↑'Biddle Resigns as Envoy to Exiles To Take Post With Invasion Army'. January 23, 1944. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B13FF34581B7B93C1AB178AD85F408485F9. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑Tony Leviero (April 14, 1955). 'Biddle to Retire as Ridgway Aide: General, Former Ambassador, Slated to Head National Guard in Pennsylvania'. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40E16F8395C177B93C6A8178FD85F418585F9. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑Hans Wild (October 4, 1943). 'Tony Biddle'. Life magazine. http://www.life.com/image/50408528. Front cover photo.
- ↑George Frazier (September 1960). 'The Art of Wearing Clothes'. Esquire magazine. http://thematerialist.net/artofwearingclothes.html. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑'Icon, Icon A.J.'. Easy and Elegant Life. June 22, 2009. http://easyandelegantlife.com/2009/06/icon-icon-aj/. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ↑'Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Dead. Ambassador to Spain Was 64. Envoy and Officer in World War II. Tributes Paid by Kennedy and Eisenhower'. New York Times. November 14, 1961. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10714FD3F581B728DDDAD0994D9415B818AF1D3. Retrieved April 10, 2010. 'Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, ambassador to Spain and for many years one of this country's most distinguished diplomats, died today at Walter Reed Army ..'
- ↑Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr at Find a Grave (cenotaph)
- ↑The Happiest Millionaire at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑Richard Severo (May 1, 1995). 'Angier Biddle Duke, 79, an Ambassador And Scion of Tobacco Family, Has Died'. New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE4DA1430F932A35756C0A963958260. Retrieved March 22, 2011.
- ↑'A Washington Duke genealogy as it pertains to Duke University'. Archived from the original on 5 March 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110305122212/http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/duke_wash-genea.html. Retrieved March 22, 2011. 'Shirts, including the famous ones with horizontally striped, starched bosoms come from Charvet in Paris.'
External linksEdit
- Will Boehlke (November 27, 2006). 'A Suitable Wardrobe'. blog. Archived from the original on 10 March 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110310234142/http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2006/11/suitable-wardrobe.html. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- 'Chiefs of Mission for Poland'. Office of the Historian. US Department of State. Archived from the original on 19 March 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110319061622/http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/poland. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- 'Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., Major General, United States Army, Foreign Service Officer'. ArlingtonCemetery.net. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ajdbiddl.htm. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
- Svinth, Joseph R. (December 2001). 'Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB Pioneer'. EJMAS. http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_Svinth_1201.htm. Retrieved May 28, 2009.
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr at Find a Grave (at Arlingon)
Diplomatic posts | ||
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Preceded by Hoffman Philip | U.S. Ambassador to Norway 1935–1937 | Succeeded by Florence Jaffray Harriman |
Preceded by John Cudahy | U.S. Ambassador to Poland 1937–1943 | Succeeded by Arthur Bliss Lane |
Preceded by Florence Jaffray Harriman | U.S. Ambassador to Norway 1941–1943 To Norway government-in-exile in England. Commissioned also to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, and Yugoslavia; resident at London. | Succeeded by Lithgow Osborne |
Preceded by John Lodge | U.S. Ambassador to Spain 1961 | Succeeded by Ellis O. Briggs |
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