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Huntington Wilson was born in Chicago on December 15, 1875, the son of Benjamin Mairs Wilson and Frances (Huntington) Wilson.
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Huntington Wilson
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Wilson was educated at Yale University, receiving an Bachelor of Arts in 1897.
Career
After college, Wilson joined the United States Consular and Diplomatic Service, becoming a Second Secretary at the United States Legation in Tokyo. He was promoted to First Secretary in 1900 and then to Chargé d’Affaires in 1901. The couple would divorce in 1915.
Wilson returned to the United States in 1906, becoming Third Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, District of Columbia and the Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the Consular and Diplomatic Service.
With the outbreak of the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt named Wilson Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire. He was also sent on a mission to Argentina.
Returning to the United States. again in 1909, Wilson became United States Assistant Secretary of State, holding this office from March 5, 1909 until March 19, 1913. In this capacity, Wilson was responsible for drawing up and implementing a reorganization of the United States Department of State.
Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia.
There, he wrote for the Public Ledger and the Evening Bulletin. He also began writing books at this time, with his published titles including Stultitia (1914),,, and He worked briefly for the National City Bank in New York City, before becoming president of a Waterbury, Connecticut company that made signaling devices.
He then returned to Philadelphia, serving as Director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum from 1928 to 1932.
Wilson died in New Haven, Connecticut on December 31, 1946.
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Membership
He became an hereditary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati in 1808.
