Warren Delano Robbins

Warren Delano Robbins

Warren Delano Robbins (September 3, 1885 – April 7, 1935) was an American diplomat and first cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Robbins was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Harvard University in 1908. In 1909, he became a secretary on the staff of the United States Ambassador to Portugal. In subsequent years, he would work in a lower-level diplomatic function in Argentina (1909), France (1911), and Guatemala (1914). In 1916, he was briefly assigend to the Department of State's Division of Latin American Affairs before returning to Argentina in 1917 and then on to Chile in 1919. In 1921, Robbins was promoted as Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs, before serving in Germany (1922) and Italy (1925).

In 1929, Robbins was elevated to Minister and given his first post as Chief of Mission, in Salvador. (The country would change its name to El Salvador while he was at that post.) In 1930, he was made a White House ceremonial officer and in 1931 was reassigned to the State Department as Chief of Protocol of the United States. In this role, he was responsible for greeting foreign dignitaries and other ceremonial duties.

In 1933, he was assigned as Chief of Mission to Canada, a position he held until shortly before his death of pneumonia, aged 49.

References

• "Warren D. Robbins Dies of Pneumonia; Our Minister to Canada and Cousin of the President Had Been Ill a Week" (fee). The New York Times. 1935-04-08. p. 19.