Vinton Chapin was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg.
12 Facts About Vinton Chapin
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Vinton Chapin was a son of Dr Amory Chapin and Annie Chapin.
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Vinton Chapin was educated at St Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, before attending Harvard University, where he graduated with the class of 1923 and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 and the Harvard Club of Boston.
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Vinton Chapin served as the US Vice Consul in Prague in 1929, and the US Consul in Port-au-Prince in 1943.
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On July 3,1957, President Dwight D Eisenhower appointed Chapin the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg to succeed Wiley T Buchanan Jr.
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Vinton Chapin's mission was terminated when he left the post on July 31,1960.
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Vinton Chapin was succeeded in the role by A Burks Summers.
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Vinton Chapin took the oath of office, but did not proceed to post as the US severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic on August 26,1960.
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In 1968, Chapin was a member of the Ambassadors for Nixon Committee, an organization formed of seventeen former ambassadors to support the, then, former Vice President Richard M Nixon's run for president.
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On November 1,1928, Vinton Chapin was married to Elizabeth Brosius Olmsted at Prouts Neck, Maine.
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Vinton Chapin died on September 15,1982, at the New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, Massachusetts, after a long illness.
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Vinton Chapin was buried at Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island.