Robert Worth Bingham

Robert Bingham
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
May 23, 1933 – November 19, 1937
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byAndrew W. Mellon
Succeeded byJoseph P. Kennedy
33rd Mayor of Louisville
In office
July 1907 – December 1907
Preceded byPaul C. Barth
Succeeded byJames F. Grinstead
Personal details
Born
Robert Worth Bingham

(1871-11-08)November 8, 1871
Orange County, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedDecember 18, 1937(1937-12-18) (aged 66)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting placeCave Hill Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic (before 1910, 1917–1937)
Republican (1910–1917)
Spouse(s)Eleanor Miller
Mary Flagler
Aleen Lithgow Hilliard
Children3, including Barry
EducationUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of Louisville (LLB)
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Robert Worth Bingham (November 8, 1871 – December 18, 1937) was a politician, judge, newspaper publisher and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1933 to 1937.[a]

  1. ^ Ellis, William E. (1997). Robert Worth Bingham and the Southern mystique: from the Old South to the New South and beyond. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. pp. 193–195. ISBN 0873385780. OCLC 36543342.
  2. ^ Tifft, Susan; Jones, Alex S. (February 1993). The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. Simon and Schuster. pp. 151–. ISBN 978-0-671-79707-2.
  3. ^ Campbell, Walter E. (2010). Across fortune's tracks: a biography of William Rand Kenan Jr. The University Of North Carolina Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0807865170. OCLC 949985349.
  4. ^ "President Chooses Joseph P. Kennedy as Envoy to Britain; Bingham, Now at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Forced by Illness to Resign as Ambassador". The New York Times. December 9, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  5. ^ "Robert W. Bingham, Ambassador, Dies; U. S. Envoy to Great Britain, 66, Succumbs to a Tumor of Rare Occurrence". The New York Times. December 19, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "Bingham is Buried With Simple Rites; Bishop EmeritusWoodcock and Envoy's Pastor Officiate in Notables' Presence". The New York Times. December 21, 1937. p. 23. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  7. ^ "Robert Worth Bingham". history.state.gov. Retrieved June 15, 2018.


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