Ogden Haggerty 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 |
| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly | |
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In office 1914–1915 |
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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 |
| Children | 3, including Millicent Fenwick |
| Relatives | John Hammond (nephew) |
| Education | Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
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. His brother, John Henry Hammond Jr., married Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, granddaughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, and was the father of John H. Hammond III (1910–1987).
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.
After graduating from Yale, he returned to Superior where he served as a member of the Board of Aldermen for two years.
Hammond worked as an insurance broker, then moved into real estate, becoming president of the Broadway Improvement Company and the Hoboken Terminal Railway Company, as well as vice-president of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, owned by his in-laws, the Stevenses. Ogden became involved in local Republican politics, serving on the Bernardsville Township Committee from 1912 to 1914. He was elected to a one-year term in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1914 and was re-elected the following year. He later served as delegate to the 1916 Republican National Convention and as treasurer of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.
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