Irving B. Dudley

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| ambassador_from = United States

| country = Brazil

| term_start = April 1, 1907

| term_end = September 16, 1911

| predecessor = Lloyd Carpenter Griscom

| successor = Edwin Vernon Morgan

| president = Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft

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| minister_from2= United States

| country2 = Peru

| term_start2 = September 20, 1897

| term_end2 = February 14, 1907

| predecessor2 = James A. McKenzie

| successor2 = Leslie Combs III

| president2 = William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt

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| birth_place = Jefferson, Ohio

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| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland

| death_cause = Heart failure

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| party = Republican

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| spouse = Jane Agnes Kelly

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| education = Kenyon College (BA)
George Washington University (LL.B.)

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Irving Bedell Dudley (November 30, 1861{{spaced endash}}November 27, 1911) was an American lawyer and diplomat, who served as United States Ambassador to Brazil from 1907 to 1911.

Biography

Born in Ohio, the son of a minister and his wife,{{cite book|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-O4pAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA296|year=1906|publisher=J.T. White|pages=296–297}} Dudley studied at Kenyon College, graduating in 1882,{{cite book|title=The International Who's who: Who's who in the World : a Biographical Dictionary of the World's Notable Living Men and Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yl5kAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA402|year=1911|publisher=International Who's Who Publishing Company|pages=402}} before continuing to study law at Columbian University (now George Washington University), graduating in 1885; he was admitted to the bar that year,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/11/28/archives/ambassador-dudley-dead-us-representative-in-brazil-dies-in.html |title=AMBASSADOR DUDLEY DEAD.; U.S. Representative in Brazil Dies in Baltimore -- Wife Seriously Ill. |date=November 28, 1911 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}} and worked for the War Department.{{Cite news |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-06-26/ed-1/seq-2.pdf |title=Nominated by the President |date=June 26, 1897 |work=The San Francisco Call}}

Three years later, in 1888, he moved to San Diego, California, where he was later elected a judge in 1890.

A Republican, Dudley was appointed United States Minister to Peru by President William McKinley on June 25, 1897;{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/06/26/archives/president-fills-offices-irving-b-dudley-of-california-for-minister.html |title=PRESIDENT FILLS OFFICES.; Irving B. Dudley of California for Minister to Peru--Other Nominations Made. |date=June 26, 1897 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}} he took up his post in September of that year.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/09/18/archives/minister-dudleys-reception.html |title=Minister Dudley's Reception. |date=September 18, 1897 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}}

In December 1906,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/12/13/archives/senate-accepts-part-of-the-new-cabinet-bonaparte-metcalf-and-straus.html |title=SENATE ACCEPTS PART OF THE NEW CABINET; Bonaparte, Metcalf, and Straus Confirmed -- Moody Also. NO FIGHT ON THE OTHERS President's Failure to Name Date the Nominations Were to Take Effect Caused Delay. |date=December 13, 1906 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}} McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt, appointed Dudley to be United States Ambassador to Brazil,{{Cite magazine |date=January 26, 1907 |editor-last=Bellamy |editor-first=Francis Rufus |editor-link=Francis Rufus Bellamy |title=Merit and Diplomacy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sU8cAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA211 |magazine=The Outlook |volume=85 |issue=5 |pages=211–215 |access-date=June 21, 2018}} a post he took up in April 1907.

Illness dogged Dudley and his wife during his career,{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/09/17/archives/peruvian-ministers-wife-ill.html |title=Peruvian Minister's Wife Ill. |date=September 17, 1898 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/13/archives/minister-dudley-ill-nose-bleeds-severely-at-an-official-function-on.html |title=MINISTER DUDLEY ILL.; Nose Bleeds Severely at an Official Function on a Cruiser. |date=November 13, 1907 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/07/13/archives/ambassador-dudley-seriously-ill.html |title=Ambassador Dudley Seriously Ill. |date=July 13, 1911 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}} and would ultimately contribute to his death: after staying at Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of an unrelated complaint,{{Cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19111128.2.51.21 |title=IRVING B. DUDLEY DIES FROM HEART FAILURE |date=November 28, 1911 |work=The San Francisco Call |access-date=June 21, 2018}} he died there of heart failure.

His wife would die in 1960, at the age of 87.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/01/27/archives/mrs-irving-b-dudley.html |title=MRS. IRVING B. DUDLEY |date=January 27, 1960 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 21, 2018 |language=en}}