Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr.
| Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. | |
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| United States Ambassador to Norway | |
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In office March 20, 1941 – December 1, 1943 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Florence Jaffray Harriman |
| Succeeded by | Lithgow Osborne |
| United States Ambassador to Poland | |
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In office June 2, 1937 – December 1, 1943 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | John Cudahy |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Bliss Lane |
| United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | |
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In office September 17, 1941 – December 1, 1943 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Wilbur J. Carr |
| Succeeded by | Laurence A. Steinhardt |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 17, 1897 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 13, 1961 (aged 63) Washington, D.C. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack, cancer |
| Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Lillian Duke Margaret Thompson Schulze Margaret Atkinson Loughborough |
| Children |
Mary Duke Biddle Margaret Biddle Nicholas Duke Biddle (originally Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III) Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III (b. 1948) |
| Parents | Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. |
| Occupation | U.S. Army general, diplomat |
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr. (December 17, 1897 - November 13, 1961) was a wealthy socialite who became a diplomat of the United States, and served in the United States Army during World War I and after World War II, reaching the rank of major general.
Biddle was the son of millionaire Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1874–1948), and Cordelia Rundell Bradley (1873–1947). He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 17, 1897. His father, grandson of banker Anthony Joseph Drexel and great-grandson of banker Nicholas Biddle, was an eccentric boxing fan. When he was ten years old, the younger Biddle was in an exhibition match with Bob Fitzsimmons, who knocked him into a wall with a punch traveling about two inches. He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire but never attended college.
Biddle married Mary Lillian Duke, a tobacco heiress, on June 16, 1915. They divorced in 1931 after having two children: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (1920-2012) and Nicholas Duke Biddle (1921–2004), who was initially named Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, only to have his mother change his name following the divorce. His second wife, whom he married in 1931 (later divorced), was Margaret Thompson Schulze, the only child of mining magnate William Boyce Thompson; by this marriage he had two stepchildren, (Margaret) Boyce Schulze and Theodore Schulze Jr, as well as a son, given the name Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle III, who died at birth. He married as his third wife, in 1946, Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, the former wife of William Ellery Loughborough and had two children, Margaret Biddle and Anthony Biddle III; after Biddle's death, she married, as her fourth husband, Colonel Edwinston Robbins.
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