John W. Riddle
John Wallace Riddle Jr. was an American diplomat. His first diplomatic assignment was as agent/consul general in Egypt. He was then sent to Romania and Serbia in 1905 to serve as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, followed by postings as U.S. ambassador to Russia and ambassador to Argentina.Personal life
Born in Philadelphia, Riddle was the son of John Wallace Riddle, Sr. and Rebecca Blair McClure; he was born after his father's untimely death. A few years later, Rebecca McClure became the second wife of Charles Eugene Flandrau and relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota where Riddle grew up alongside two half-brothers and two step-sisters. He graduated from Harvard in 1887, attended law school at Columbia through 1890, and studied international law, diplomacy, and languages at École Libre des Sciences Politiques and the Collège de France in Paris through 1893.
In 1916 Riddle married American architect and heiress Theodate Pope Riddle.
He died in Farmington, Connecticut, at the age of 77.
