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- SAR #10233 He studied in various preparatory schools and graduated from YaleUniversity (A. B.) 1897; took a course in the law department of GeorgeWashington University, and was admitted after examination to be a memberof the bars of the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the Districtof Columbia; appointed Second Secretary of the Legation at Tokyo, May 4,1897; Secretary of the Legation at Tokyo, October 10, 1900; Charged'Affaires from January until June, 1901, in September 1902, fromFebruary 24 until June 2, 1903, and from November 19, 1905, until May,1906; Secretary of the Embassy, May 26, 1906; Third Assistant Secretaryof State, June 22, 1906; designated Chairman of the Board of Examinersfor the Consular Service, under Executive order of June 27, 1906;appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to ============================== Huntington Wilson wrote an autobiography, Memoirs of an Ex-Diplomat (pub.in 1945) that is very interesting reading and includes a picture of him.He died Dec. 31, 1946 in New Haven, CT. He married 3 times in all: 1.Lucy Wortham James in 1912, divorced in 1915, 2. Lucile O'Hara Powell, m.Dec. 14, 1915 and divorced in 1917; and 3. Hope Butler m. Sept. 1, 1925in Zurich, Switzerland. His obit. is in the New York Times, p. 34, Jan.1, 1947. He had no children.
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