Background
Momsen, Richard Paul was born on September 12, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of William Henry and Mary Louise (Groth) Momsen.
Momsen, Richard Paul was born on September 12, 1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Son of William Henry and Mary Louise (Groth) Momsen.
Graduated from the high school, Milwaukee, 1909. Bachelor of Laws, George Washington University, 1912. Bach. Judicial and Social Sciences, Rio Janeiro Brazil, 1917.
Richard Paul, Alicia Louise (Mistress Paul Davis Miller), William Laurence, Beatrice Ellen Momsen (now the wife of Frederick C. Stone). Admitted to bar of Wisconsin and New New York Secretary to William J. Cary, member Congress, 1909-1913. Went to Rio Janeiro as deputy consul general, 1913, later v. consul and in charge Consulate General.
Appointment by President Harding deputy commissioner general of the United States to International Centennial Exposition, Rio Janeiro, January 11, 1922, acting commissioner general, May-August 1922. Delegate to Interamerican Bar Convention, Rio de Janeiro, 1943, Santiago, Chile, 1945, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1954. Advisory to the United States delegate Inter-American Economics Conference, Petropolis, Brazil, 1954.
Author of pamphlets relating to law and trade in Brazil.
Member Brazil committee Eisenhower Exchange. Member Brazilian, American, New York State, New York County Bar Associations, Brazilian Geographical Society (honorary. Member 1958).; Clubs: Country (president 1932), Jockey.
Rotarian. 1st American admitted to Brazilian bar.
Married Dorothea Anne Harnecker, October 27, 1921.