Background
Chaoshu Wu was born on June 16, 1887 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of former Minister to the United States Wu Tingfang and philanthropist Ho Miu-ling.
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Chaoshu Wu was born on June 16, 1887 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of former Minister to the United States Wu Tingfang and philanthropist Ho Miu-ling.
Chaoshu Wu graduated from the University of London in 1911.
Chaoshu Wu was elected a member of the Chinese parliament in 1913. In 1917, he joined Sun Yatsen's Constitution Protection Movement, and in 1918 was made Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. He remained in this post until 1923, despite Sun's exile and subsequent return.
In 1919 Chaoshu Wu was China's chief delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference. In March 1923, Chao became Foreign Affairs Minister in Sun's government-in-exile. He became Foreign Minister of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek in 1927. He then served as Minister to the United States from 1928 to 1931, and Representative to the League of Nations in 1929-30. He was the delegate to The Hague Conference for the Modification of International Law in 1930.
Chaoshu Wu resigned as Minister to the United States in 1931 as a protest against the supply of arms to the Nanking government against the rival Cantonese government.
Chaoshu Wu married Pao Fang-ho, and the couple had eight children. Wu's grandson is US federal judge George H. Wu.