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Hugh Campbell Wallace was the son of Thomas Bates Wallace, a merchant of Lexington, Mo. , and his second wife, Lucy (née Briscoe), widow of Frank P. Gaines. His ancestor William Wallace emigrated as a child with relatives from Northern Ireland in 1724 to Pennsylvania and later moved to Virginia.
Hugh Wallace's success in business and politics was foreshadowed by his energy, shrewdness, and business acumen as a schoolboy in Lexington.
He was a born trader; he always seemed to have a job; he was hardly grown when he made a business trip to Texas and New Mexico. At twenty-two he was appointed receiver of public moneys in Salt Lake City by President Cleveland, and held office from 1885 to 1887, when he resigned to join his older brother in Tacoma, Wash. They organized a bank, and Hugh also engaged in extensive real estate and commercial activities. He was closely identified with the development of Tacoma and throughout his life retained an important interest in the city's financial affairs. He organized a steamship line to Alaska during the Klondike gold rush, and acquired an interest in Alaskan gold mines. He became one of the most influential financiers of the Northwest. He never ran for public office, though he was offered nominations for governor and United States senator in the state of Washington, and he held only two political appointments in his life. Friendly, eloquent, keen-witted and clear-headed, convincing in his sincerity, of unquestioned integrity, he was early in the councils of the Democratic leaders of the Northwest. He was elected to the Democratic National Committee in 1892 and 1896, resigned in 1896, and was elected again for a four-year term in 1916. He was a delegate-at-large from Washington to Democratic national conventions from 1896 to 1912, and took a prominent part in the presidential campaigns of 1892, 1912, and 1916. Following Wilson's election Wallace refused the secretaryship of war but became an intimate member of the President's unofficial family, a trusted adviser, particularly in regard to Western politics. After the United States entered the World War he made unofficial confidential visits to England, France, and Italy for President Wilson. On Feburary 27, 1919, the President appointed him ambassador to France. During the difficult postwar days Wallace worked tirelessly to keep French friendship for the United States unbroken, so wholeheartedly and so ably that among the many harsh things said in the press of both countries, little or no criticism of Wallace appeared. Following the withdrawal of the American delegation to the Peace Conference he was appointed American representative on the Supreme Council and the Conference of Ambassadors at Paris, and although empowered to act only as observer and not as active participant, his influence was considerable. He signed for the United States the treaty concerning the Archipelago of Spitzbergen (Feburary 9, 1920), and the Treaty of Trianon (June 4, 1920). He resigned on March 4, 1921, but at President Harding's request remained at his post until the arrival of his successor in July. The French government bestowed on him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and during the rest of his life he spent much of his time in France, where he had established many warm friendships. In 1927 he was named American representative in the International Academy of Diplomacy, organized under French auspices. In 1930 he became president of the Foch National Memorial, Incorporated. During and following his term as ambassador he assembled a valuable library of works dealing with the history of the Franco-American relations, which he presented to the United States government for the American embassy in Paris shortly before his death. He died of heart disease at his home in Washington, D. C. , after a long illness.
(Excerpt from The Speeches Of The Hon. Hugh C. Wallace, Am...)
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While visiting President Cleveland in Washington, D. C. , he met Mildred Fuller, daughter of Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, and married her on January 5, 1891. Two of their three children died in infancy.
