page_title: List of people from Bangor, Maine
section_title: Diplomats
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Bangor, Maine / Diplomats
caption_attribution_description: English: Elisha Hunt Allen (1804-1883) was an American congressman who then became chief justice of the supreme court for the Kingdom of Hawaii. He died in the White House while visiting Chester Arthur.
context_page_description: The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bangor, Maine.
context_section_description: Patrick Duddy of Bangor was the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela in the Bush administration. He was temporarily expelled from the country in 2008 by President Hugo Chávez in a dispute over an alleged American coup plot.
  Other diplomats who were born or lived in Bangor include Robert Newbegin II, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1958) and Haiti (1960–61); Charles Stetson Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1921–28); Romania (1928), and Yugoslavia (1933); William P. Snow, U.S. Ambassador to Burma (1959–61) and Paraguay (1961–67); Chester E. Norris, U.S. Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1988–91); Albert G. Jewett, U.S. Chargé d'affaires to Peru (1845–47);Gorham Parks, U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro (1845–49); Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor, U.S. Consul-General to Canada (1857–61); and Aaron Young Jr., U.S. Consul in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1863–73), who was formerly Maine's State Botanist and Secretary of the Bangor Natural History Society. Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's Vice President and Bangor politician, served as U.S. Ambassador to Spain later in his career.
  While former Maine Governor Edward Kent was U.S. Consul in Rio de Janeiro 1849–53, he lost two of his three children to yellow fever. His wife died the year they returned to Bangor, and his surviving child soon after.
  Bangor politician Elisha Hunt Allen served as U.S. Consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii 1850–56, and then joined the Hawaiian government as Chancellor and Chief Justice 1857–76. In that capacity he accompanied King Kalakaua on his first and only trip to the United States in 1874. Allen returned to Washington as Ambassador of the Kingdom of Hawaii to the United States, and died on the job during a White House diplomatic reception in 1883. Allen's son, William Fessenden Allen, who was born in Bangor, also served in the government of Hawaii, both before and after the Kingdom became an American territory.
caption: Congressman, diplomat, and Hawaiian government official Elisha Hunt Allen with wife Mary
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