[7] His paternal grandparents were Henry John Whitehouse, the 2nd Episcopal Bishop of Illinois, and Evelina Harriet (née Bruen).
[2] In 1911, he was appointed second secretary in Paris, France,[10] followed by service in Madrid, Athens, Stockholm and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
In fact, Whitehouse acquired the touring car in which Alexander Kerensky fled St. Petersburg after he was overthrown as the head of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917 during the October Revolution.
[13] This was disproved when the Paris police stated that they assigned two plainclothes policemen to protect the mayor as he was a distinguished visitor.
[1] On July 15, 1933, he was appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to replace Jefferson Caffery as the U.S. Minister to Colombia.
She managed to travel through wartime Europe to Lisbon, Portugal, and flew home on the Dixie Clipper as what was said to be the oldest woman ever to make the trip by air.
[20] Mary's sister, Harriet Alexander, was married to Winthrop W. Aldrich, who was the CEO of Chase Bank and the U.S.
[21] The Whitehouses had a home in Newport, Rhode Island, built by his father and known as "Eastbourne Lodge", an apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York City, and a large estate outside Tallahassee, Florida.
He formerly served as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs from 2009 to 2013 and U.S.