Ignacio Calderón (diplomat)

Ignacio Calderón (July 31, 1848 in La Paz[1]—April 26, 1927 in Washington, DC)[2] was a Bolivian politician and diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to the United States, representing the government of Ismael Montes.

[3] Calderón graduated from the University of La Paz at 19, and spent a year there teaching history.

[1] In that role, he was given permission to attend the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where he met Arcadia Yarnell of Baltimore;[4] they married in 1877.

[1] He briefly served as Bolivian consul general in New York City before returning to Bolivia, where he worked in imports/exports and banking until 1900, when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury under José Manuel Pando.

[5] After the 1920 Bolivian coup d'état, Calderón retired as Envoy, and remained in Washington for the rest of his life.