Norman Armour
| Norman Armour | |
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| United States Ambassador to Haiti | |
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In office July 25, 1932 – March 21, 1935 |
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| President |
Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Dana G. Munro |
| Succeeded by | George A. Gordon |
| United States Ambassador to Canada | |
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In office August 7, 1935 – January 15, 1939 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Warren Delano Robbins |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Calhoun Roper |
| United States Ambassador to Chile | |
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In office April 21, 1938 – June 10, 1939 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | James B. Cunningham |
| Succeeded by | Claude G. Bowers |
| United States Ambassador to Argentina | |
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In office May 18, 1939 – June 29, 1944 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Alexander W. Weddell |
| Succeeded by | Spruille Braden |
| United States Ambassador to Spain | |
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In office December 15, 1944 – December 1, 1945 |
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| President |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Carlton J. H. Hayes |
| Succeeded by | Philip W. Bonsal |
| United States Ambassador to Venezuela | |
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In office December 7, 1950 – October 2, 1951 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Walter J. Donnelly |
| Succeeded by | Fletcher Warren |
| United States Ambassador to Guatemala | |
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In office October 18, 1954 – May 9, 1955 |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | John Emil Peurifoy |
| Succeeded by | Edward J. Sparks |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 14, 1887 Brighton, England |
| Died | September 27, 1982 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Myra Sergueievna Koudashev |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University; Harvard Law School |
Norman Armour (October 14, 1887– September 27, 1982) was a career United States diplomat whom The New York Times once called "the perfect diplomat". In his long career spanning both World Wars, he served as Chief of Mission in eight countries, as Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and married into Russian nobility.
Armour was born in Brighton, England while his parents were vacationing there. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from St. Paul's School and Princeton University in 1909. In 1913, he graduated from Harvard Law School before returning to Princeton to study diplomacy. His first posts were to Austria in 1912 and France from 1915-1916 before formally entering the Foreign Service.
One of his first assignments in the Foreign Service was as Second Secretary in the United States embassy in Petrograd in the Russian Empire, beginning in 1916 (during World War I). After the collapse of Czarist Russia, the Bolsheviks seized control of the government and signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central powers, which marked their exit from World War I. (These events precipitated the Russian Civil War which would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922.) Prior to the formal signing of the treaty, the United States partially evacuated their embassy, but Armour remained as part of the limited staff. On July 25, the Russian authorities ordered the diplomats out of Petrograd and a new legation was set up in Vologda. The North Russia Campaign, an Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, further destabilized the situation and resulted in the legation becoming essentially under siege. (The Russian army had already attacked the British consulate and killed its Attache.) At this point, the order of events for Armour becomes somewhat unclear.
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