Ogden H. Hammond
| Ogden H. Hammond | |
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| United States Ambassador to Spain | |
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In office December 21, 1925 – October 13, 1929 |
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| President | Calvin Coolidge |
| Preceded by | Alexander P. Moore |
| Succeeded by | Irwin B. Laughlin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ogden Haggerty Hammond October 13, 1869 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Died | October 29, 1956 (aged 87) Manhattan, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Picton Stevens Marguerite McClure Howland |
Ogden Haggerty Hammond (October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956) was an American businessman, politician and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Spain from 1925 to 1929. He was the father of Millicent Fenwick, a four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey.
Hammond was born in 1869 in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of John Henry Hammond and Sophia Vernon Wolfe. During the Civil War his father served as chief of staff to General William Tecumseh Sherman before becoming a general himself. The Hammond family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was four, and then to Saint Paul, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Yale University in 1893. Returning to Superior, he served as a member of the Board of Aldermen for two years.
On a visit to Bernardsville, New Jersey, Hammond met Mary Picton Stevens (May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915). They were married in Hoboken on April 8, 1907. Mary was the daughter of John Stevens (July 1856 – January 21, 1895), oldest son of Stevens Institute of Technology founder Edwin Augustus Stevens and grandson of inventor John Stevens, and Mary Marshall McGuire (May 4, 1850 – May 2, 1905). The Hammonds settled in a forty-seven-room mansion in Bernardsville in 1908.
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