6, 1890 Belmont was invested as a Commander of the French Legion of Honor. In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Belmont served for six weeks in the Army as an Inspector General of the First Division, Second Army Corps, United States Volunteers, with the rank of major. When the Consolidated National Bank of New York was organized on July 1, 1902, the fourteen directors included individuals such as Belmont, John W. Griggs, Henry C. Brewster, George Crocker, and Mortimer H. Wagar. In 1906, Belmont became "permanent president" of the National Publicity Bill Organization, which fought for campaign finance disclosure. During the First World War, despite being 65 years old, Belmont was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps on May 5, 1917. He was assigned to the Remount Division in Washington, D.C., and was discharged on May 21, 1920. Personal life In 1899, after 17 years of marriage, Jessie Ann Robbins (1858-1935) divorced Henry T. Sloane (son of William Sloane, the founder of W. & J. Sloane) to marry Perry Belmont. The marriage occurred only five hours after the divorce was decreed and, at the time, was considered scandalous. Belmont died in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 25, 1947 (age 95 years, 148 days). He is interred along with his parents and his brother August Belmont Jr. in the Belmont family plot in the Island Cemetery in Newport. His former home in Washington, D.C., became the International Temple for the Order of the Eastern Star. Military awards Spanish War Service Medal World War I Victory Medal See also List of members of the American Legion References External links (with portrait) 1851 births 1947 deaths American people of German-Jewish descent Politicians from Newport, Rhode Island Politicians from Washington, D.C. Ambassadors of the United States to Spain Harvard College alumni Columbia Law School alumni American racehorse owners and breeders Belmont family 19th-century American diplomats Burials at Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Consolidated National Bank people