Irving Bedell Dudley

Irving Bedell Dudley (November 30, 1861 – November 27, 1911) was an American lawyer and diplomat, who served as United States Ambassador to Brazil from 1907 to 1911.

Biography Born in Ohio, the son of a minister and his wife, Dudley studied at Kenyon College, graduating in 1882, before continuing to study law at Columbian University (now George Washington University), graduating in 1885; he was admitted to the bar that year, and worked for the War Department.

Three years later, in 1888, he moved to San Diego, California, where he was later elected a judge in 1890. he took up his post in September of that year.

In December 1906, McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt, appointed Dudley to be United States Ambassador to Brazil, a post he took up in April 1907.

Illness dogged Dudley and his wife during his career, and would ultimately contribute to his death: after staying at Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of an unrelated complaint, he died there of heart failure.