Selden Chapin
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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. 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. He was the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, Iran, Netherlands, Peru and Panama. He is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
His son was Frederic L. Chapin, ambassador to Ethiopia and Guatemala. His niece and ward is Hope Cooke, wife of the former king of Sikkim.
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Preceded by | Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Hungary 1947–1949 |
Succeeded by Nathaniel P. Davis |
Preceded by | United States Ambassador to the Netherlands October 27, 1949 – October 30, 1953 |
Succeeded by H. Freeman Matthews |
Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Panama January 2, 1954 – May 29, 1955 |
Succeeded by Julian F. Harrington |
Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Iran 1955–1958 |
Succeeded by Edward T. Wailes |
Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Peru May 7, 1960 – August 7, 1960 |
Succeeded by James Loeb |
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- 1899 births
- 1963 deaths
- Ambassadors of the United States to Iran
- Ambassadors of the United States to the Netherlands
- Ambassadors of the United States to Panama
- Ambassadors of the United States to Peru
- Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
- Chapin family
- People from Erie, Pennsylvania