Angier Biddle Duke

Angier Biddle Duke (November 30, 1915 – April 29, 1995) was an American soldier, diplomat in the United States Foreign Service and a White House aide. In 1952, at age 36, he became the youngest American ambassador in history when he was appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador.

Duke was born in New York City. His father was Angier Buchanan Duke (1884–1923) an heir to the American Tobacco Company fortune; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Newton Duke (1855–1929), a major benefactor of Duke University (named for the family). His mother was Cordelia Drexel Biddle. His maternal grandfather was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. of the Biddle family of Philadelphia. A great-great-grandfather through his mother was banker Anthony Joseph Drexel.

Duke attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He dropped out of Yale University in 1936.

Duke became skiing editor for a sports magazine in the late 1930s. In 1940 he enlisted as a private in the United States Army Air Forces, and by discharge in 1945 was a major serving in North Africa and Europe. His uncle Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. was serving as ambassador to most of the governments-in-exile that were occupied by Germany during World War II.

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