Marshall Orme Wilson Jr. (November 13, 1885 – February 13, 1966)[1] was an American diplomat and member of the Astor family.
[4][5][6][7] He had one younger brother, Richard Thornton Wilson III, who married Florence Magee Ellsworth.
His paternal grandparents were Richard Thornton Wilson Sr., a banker who invested in railways following the end of the U.S. Civil War,[10] and Melissa Clementine Johnston.
[27] His only maternal uncle was John Jacob Astor IV, who married socialite Ava Lowle Willing[28] and later, Madeleine Talmage Force.
[30] After graduating from Harvard, Wilson traveled abroad considerably and then became a "banker and manufacturer" with an office at 14 Wall Street in New York City.
[34] On March 21, 1944, Wilson was appointed the United States Ambassador to Haiti by President Franklin D.