Lloyd Carpenter Griscom
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Lloyd Carpenter Griscom （November 4, 1872 – February 8, 1959） was an American lawyer, diplomat, and newspaper publisher.
Lloyd Griscom was born on November 4, 1872, at Riverton, New Jersey.
He was the son of shipping magnate Clement Griscom （1841–1912） and Frances Canby Biddle （1840–1923）.
Among his siblings was Frances Griscom, an amateur golfer who won the 1900 U.S. Women's Amateur held at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, She and played in the 1898 Amateur at the Ardsley Club.
He graduated in 1891 from the law department of University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Sigma Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Griscom continued his legal studies at the New York Law School.
He later received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907.
A photograph from 1909, at Centocelle Field outside of Rome, Italy, with King Victor Emmanuel III, Wilbur Wright, and Ambassador Griscom, 1909.
In 1893–1894, Griscom served in the United Kingdom as secretary to Ambassador Thomas Bayard; he was admitted to the bar in 1896, and the following year in 1897 he was deputy district attorney of New York.
During the Spanish–American War, he served as captain and assistant quartermaster.
After a short period as Secretary of Legation and chargé d' affaires at Constantinople, Griscom was appointed Minister to Persia in 1901.
He held the corresponding post in Japan （1902–1906） and was ambassador to Brazil （1906–1907） and to Italy （1907–1909）.
In 1911, he became a member of the law firm of Beekman, Menken, ...