Truxtun Beale

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Truxtun Beale (March 6, 1856 - June 2, 1936) was an American diplomat.

Beale was born in San Francisco to Edward Fitzgerald Beale and Mary Engle Edwards; his siblings were Mary (1852-1925) and Emily (1854-?). In 1874 he graduated from the Pennsylvania Military College, and four years later, after studying law at Columbia University, was admitted to the bar. Instead of practicing law, he became manager of his father's ranch in California, where he remained for 13 years. In 1891 he was appointed United States Minister to Persia, and a year later, Minister (afterward Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary) to Greece, Romania, and Serbia. The years 1894-96 he devoted to travel in Siberia, Central Asia, and Chinese Turkestan. Many articles on international questions were contributed by him to reviews and magazines. He died in Maryland and is buried in Bruton Parish Churchyard, Williamsburg, Virginia.

By his first wife, Harriet Blaine of Maine (the daughter of James G. Blaine), whom he married in 1894, he had a son, Walker Blaine Beale (1896 - September 18, 1918), a Lieutenant in the United States Army killed in action in France in World War I. After divorcing Harriet, he married his second wife, Marie Oge of San Rafael, California (granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase), in New York City on April 23, 1903.