Background
Spencer, Willing was born on December 29, 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John T. and Rebecca B.W. (Wallace) Spencer.
Spencer, Willing was born on December 29, 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John T. and Rebecca B.W. (Wallace) Spencer.
Graduate Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1900. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1899. Bachelor of Laws, University of Pennsylvania, 1903.
Practiced law in Philadelphia, 1903-1910. Appointed 3d secretary Embassy, Petrograd, March 31, 1910. 2d secretary Embassy, Berlin, 1911-1914.
Secretary of Legation, Caracas, Venezuela, 1914-1915, Panama, 1915-1916.
Charge d’affaires, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1916-1917. Assigned to Tokyo, Japan, March 6, 1917.
Secretary Legation, Peking, China, 1918-1919. Charge d’affaires, Tegucigalpa, 1920-1921.
Counselor Embassy, Madrid, Spain, 1922, Buenos Aires, resigned, 1924.
Now executor, trustee, lawyer Empire Trust Company, 580 5th Avenue, New York New York‡.
Married Marion Parsons, of New York City, December 23, 1925.