John Wallace Riddle, Jr.

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John Wallace Riddle, Jr.

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Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: December 08, 1941 (77)
Farmington, Hartford County, CT, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of John Wallace Riddle, Sr. and Rebecca Blair Riddle
Husband of Theodate Pope Riddle
Half brother of Charles Macomb Flandrau and William Blair McClure Flandrau

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About John Wallace Riddle, Jr.

John Wallace Riddle Jr. was an American diplomat. His first diplomatic assignment was as agent/consul general in Egypt (1904–1905). He was then sent to Romania and Serbia in 1905 to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (residing in Bucharest), followed by postings as U.S. ambassador to Russia (1907–1909) and ambassador to Argentina (1922–1925).

Born in Philadelphia, Riddle was the son of John Wallace Riddle, Sr. and Rebecca Blair McClure; he was born after his father's untimely death. A few years later, Rebecca McClure became the second wife of Charles Eugene Flandrau and relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota where Riddle grew up alongside two half-brothers and two step-sisters. He graduated from Harvard in 1887, attended law school at Columbia through 1890, and studied international law, diplomacy, and languages at École Libre des Sciences Politiques and the Collège de France in Paris through 1893.

In 1916 Riddle married American architect and heiress Theodate Pope Riddle.

He died in Farmington, Connecticut, at the age of 77.

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John Wallace Riddle, Jr.'s Timeline

1864
July 12, 1864
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
1941
December 8, 1941
Age 77
Farmington, Hartford County, CT, United States