Background
BOYD, Jorge was born on March 14, 1886 in Panamá. Son of Federico Boyd (ex-President of Panamá) and Teodolinda Briceño de Boyd.
BOYD, Jorge was born on March 14, 1886 in Panamá. Son of Federico Boyd (ex-President of Panamá) and Teodolinda Briceño de Boyd.
Secretary, legations in London, Paris, Brussels, The Hague, 1908-1911. Chargé d’affaires in Paris, London, The Hague, 1911-1912. Chief counselor of legation, Washington, 1912-1913.
Counsel for Panama in boundary dispute with Costa Rica, 1912-1913. Panamanian representative on Panama-United States Mixed Claims Tribunal, 1913, 1915. Delegate, San Francisco Exposition, 1915.
Associate justice, supreme court, 1916, 1920, 1923, 1929-1938. Consul general of Panama and member Allied Committee of the World War, 1917-1918. Attorney general of the Republic, 1924-1926.
Counselor. Bolivian legations, Paris and Washington, 1928. Candidate for the presidency of the Republic, 1928. Panamanian agent before Panama United States Claims Commn, 1932-1933.
Minister plenipotentiary on special mission to Washington, 1933. Chief delegate of Bolivia to 4th Spanish American Postal Congress, 1936. Consul general of Bolivia in Panama and the Canal Zone.
Ambassador to the United States, 1939-1943, to Mexico, since 1943. Bachelor of Arts, Dwight College, New York, 1903. Bachelor of Laws, University of Pennsylvania, 1907.
Doctor of Law, University de Paris, 1912. Attaché, Panamanian legation, Washington, 1904-1907.
Société de Géographie of Paris. Geographical Society of Washington, D.C. American Society of International Law.
Kent Law Club; Delta Chi Fraternity. Sociedad Bolivariana of Panamá. Société France-Amérique.
Sociedad de la Legión de Honor en Panamá (president). Société d’Histoire of the Académie Française (grand officier). Clubs Unión, Century, and Golf, of Panamá.
Club Strangers of Colón.
Married Elizabeth Bolling (niece of the late President Woodrow Wilson). Children: Lola Elizabeth, Mildred Stuart, Edith, and Elena Rolfe.