serving from March 8, 1921, to March 6, 1922, under Secretary Charles Evans Hughes. Thereafter, he served as ambassador to Belgium from 1922 until 1924 under both Harding and his successor, Calvin Coolidge, who became president after Harding's death in 1923. In 1923, he was sent to the Pan-American Conference in Santiago, taking the place of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who had declined to go. At that time, the United States Secretary of State was ex officio chair of the Pan-American Conference, although that changed in Santiago after Latin American criticism. From April 2, 1924, to August 3, 1929, he was appointed by Coolidge and served as the Ambassador to Italy. He was on close terms with the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. Later career On April 22, 1930, President Hoover appointed him chairman of the United States Tariff Commission after the Tariff Act of 1930. He was said to have accomplished more work in one year than what had been done in the previous seven. From 1934 to 1936, he was the chairman of the Republican Party and was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1936 and 1940. Personal life In 1917, he married Beatrice Bend (1874–1941), a daughter of George H. Bend, a member of the New York Stock Exchange who had gone bankrupt. Bend's sister, Amy Bend (1870–1957), was married to Cortlandt F. Bishop in 1899. Henry and Beatrice did not have any children. He died in 1959 at his home in Newport, Rhode Island, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He left an estate worth $3,000,000, and donated his personal papers to the Library of Congress. He also left a portrait of George Washington, by Edward Savage, to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Honours 1929: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold. References Notes Sources External links Bio from Allison-Antrim Museum The Political Graveyard |- |- |- |- |- |- 1873 births 1959 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Belgium Ambassadors of the United States to Chile Ambassadors of the United States to Italy Ambassadors of the United States to Luxembourg Ambassadors of the United States to Mexico American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Pennsylvania Republicans People from Franklin County, Pennsylvania Republican National Committee chairs Rhode Island Republicans United States Under Secretaries of State Bend family 20th-century American diplomats