Background
Mr. Young was born in Meixian, Guangdong, China, on July 24, 1884.
熊崇志
Mr. Young was born in Meixian, Guangdong, China, on July 24, 1884.
Young Samuel Sung received his preparatory education at the Trinity School, San Francisco. He received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California in 1904 and Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1905. He passed the Imperial Examination of the late Ching Government for returned students and was given "Chin Shih" degree in 1907.
Upon his return to China, Mr. Young was appointed a member of the Guangdong Provincial Board of Education in Canton and a professor at the College of Languages and the Provincial College. He was appointed junior secretary of the Board of Post and Communications in 1908. During 1908-1912 Mr. Young held the post of a president of Tangshan Engineering College (now Southwest Jiaotong University) in North China. He served as a secretary of the Chinese Commission to the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1913. Since 1914 Young Samuel Sung took up the post of a department head in the National Oil Administration.
In 1918 he was appointed department chief in the Grand Canal Improvement Board in Tianjin. He went to the United States as a representative of the China International Famine Relief Commission in 1924. The following year Mr. Young became a secretary of the Chinese Customs Tariff Commission. In 1926 he acted as a secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In June, 1927, Mr. Young was appointed Chinese Consul-General in New York, and served as secretary general of the Chinese Delegation to the League of Nations at its 9th Assembly in 1928.
Young Samuel Sung was appointed Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Legation in Mexico in July, 1930, but returned to New York to resume his office as Consul-General in August, 1930. Mr. Young was appointed Chinese Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico in February, 1931. In August, 1933, he took up the post of a Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil.