Irving Bedell Dudley (November 30, 1861November 27, 1911) was an American lawyer and diplomat, who served as

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from 1907 to 1911.

Biography

Born in

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, the son of a minister and his wife, Dudley studied at

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, graduating in 1882, before continuing to study law at Columbian University (now

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), graduating in 1885; he was admitted to the bar that year, and worked for the

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. Three years later, in 1888, he moved to

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, where he was later elected a judge in 1890. A Republican, Dudley was appointed United States Minister to Peru by President

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on June 25, 1897; he took up his post in September of that year. In December 1906, McKinley's successor,

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, appointed Dudley to be

, a post he took up in April 1907. Illness dogged Dudley and his wife during his career, and would ultimately contribute to his death: after staying at

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for treatment of an unrelated complaint, he died there of heart failure. His wife would die in 1960, at the age of 87.

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