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Meyer Robert Guggenheim
United States Ambassador to Portugal
Preceded by	Cavendish W. Cannon
Succeeded by	James C. H. Bonbright
Personal details
Born	(1885-05-17)May 17, 1885 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	November 16, 1959(1959-11-16) (aged 74) Washington, D.C.
Parent	Daniel Guggenheim (father)
Relatives	Guggenheim family
Education	Columbia University

Meyer Robert Guggenheim (May 17, 1885 – November 16, 1959) was an American diplomat and a member of the Guggenheim family.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Daniel Guggenheim (1856–1930), brother of Harry Frank Guggenheim, and nephew of Simon Guggenheim. In January 1938 he married his 4th wife Rebecca Pollard in Miami Beach on his yacht Firenze. Pollard had finalized her divorce to William van Lennep a week earlier. After Guggenheim's death she married John Logan.

He attended Columbia College with the class of 1907, but left before graduation. In 1909 he donated the trophy and prize money for the Ocean to Ocean Automobile Endurance Contest that coincided with the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition. As the contest was underway; he was arrested for speeding in New York City - a possible publicity stunt.

He served with the United States Army during World War I. He was appointed United States Ambassador to Portugal, serving between 1953 and 1954.

Guggenheim died in Washington, D.C., in 1959, aged 74, and was interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

References

1. ^ "Milestones, Jan. 17, 1938". Time. 1938-01-17. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
2. "Rebecca P. Logan, 90, Art Patron and Hostess". The New York Times. 16 March 1994.
3. Who's who in Finance. Joseph & Sefton. 1911. p. 586.
4. The Columbian. Columbia University. 1905.
5. "M. Robert Guggenheim trophy, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
6. "AUTO CUP DONOR ARRESTED.; M. Robert Guggenheim Held for Exceeding the Speed Limit". The New York Times. 1909-06-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
7. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian: M. Robert Guggenheim

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Minister Plenipotentiary	Humphreys (Minister Resident) Smith Sumter Graham Dearborn (Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary)
Chargé d'Affaires	Brent Kavanagh Barrow Rencher Hopkins Clay Haddock O'Sullivan
Minister Resident	O'Sullivan G. Morgan Harvey Shellabarger C. Lewis Moran Moran (chargé d'affaires)
Minister Resident/Consul General	Francis Richmond E. Lewis Loring Batcheller Pierce
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Caruth Townsend Irwin Loomis Bryan Gage E. Morgan Woods Birch Dearing South Caldwell Pell Fish Norweb
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Norweb Baruch Wiley MacVeagh Cannon Guggenheim Bonbright Elbrick Anderson Bennett Knight Scott Carlucci Bloomfield Holmes Shakespeare Rowell Briggs Bagley McGowan Palmer Hoffman Stephenson Katz Sherman Glass Levine

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