Selden Chapin
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| 1st Director General of the Foreign Service | |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Christian M. Ravndal |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Theodore Achilles |
| Succeeded by | James Loeb |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Loy W. Henderson |
| Succeeded by | Edward T. Wailes |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | John C. Wiley |
| Succeeded by | Julian F. Harrington |
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| President | Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Herman B. Baruch |
| Succeeded by | H. Freeman Matthews |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld |
| Succeeded by | Nathaniel P. Davis |
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| Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
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| Relatives | Hope Cooke (niece and ward) |
| United States Naval Academy | |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
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Years of service | 1919–1925 |
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Selden Chapin (September 19, 1899 – March 26, 1963) was a career foreign service officer and United States diplomat.
Biography
Selden Chapin was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Captain Frederic Lincoln Chapin (who was commander of the battleship Wyoming) and his wife Grace Card (Selden) Chapin. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1919 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1919 to 1925. He married Mary Paul Noyes, March 30, 1927.
He was appointed a foreign service officer in March 1925. After the liberation of Paris in August 1944, he served as Chargé d'Affaires in the American Embassy in the absence of an ambassador, since France formally broke off diplomatic relations with the U.S. after the Torch Invasion of North Africa in November 1942. Jefferson Caffery assumed the ambassadorship on 30 December 1944. Later Chapin was the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, Iran, Netherlands, Peru and Panama. Chapin and his wife are interred in Arlington National Cemetery.[1]
His son was Frederic L. Chapin, ambassador to Ethiopia and Guatemala, and his daughter was Middle East analyst Helen Chapin Metz. His niece and ward is Hope Cooke, former wife of the last king of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal.[2]
References
- ^ Burial Detail: Chapin, Selden (Section 8, Grave 38-D) – ANC Explorer
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."U.S. Girl is off to wed her Prince". The Straits Times. United Press International. March 14, 1963. p. 2. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
Miss Cooke will be accompanied to Gangtok by her aunt, Mrs. Selden Chapin, wife of the former U.S. Ambassador to Persia.
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