Selden Chapin

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Selden Chapin, Class of 1919

Headstone of Selden Chapin in Arlington National Cemetery in 2011.

Selden Chapin (September 19, 1899 – March 26, 1963) was a career foreign service officer and United States diplomat.

Biography

Selden Chapin was born at 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.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by H.F. Arthur Schoenfeld	Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Hungary 1947–1949	Succeeded by Nathaniel P. Davis
Preceded by Herman B. Baruch	United States Ambassador to the Netherlands 27 October 1949–30 October 1953	Succeeded by H. Freeman Matthews
Preceded by John C. Wiley	United States Ambassador to Panama 2 January 1954–29 May 1955	Succeeded by Julian F. Harrington
Preceded by Loy W. Henderson	United States Ambassador to Iran 1955–1958	Succeeded by Edward T. Wailes
Preceded by Theodore Achilles	United States Ambassador to Peru 7 May 1960–7 August 1960	Succeeded by James Loeb

External links

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Selden Chapin at Arlington Cemetery
"Selden Chapin". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-08-23.

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Name	Chapin, Selden
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Date of birth	September 19, 1899
Place of birth	Erie, Pennsylvania
Date of death	March 26, 1963
Place of death

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