Ignacio Calderón (diplomat)

Calderón graduated from the University of La Paz at 19, and spent a year there teaching history. He subsequently joined the Bolivian legation in Rome, after which he served as national superintendent of public instruction, then as a member of the Bolivian legation in Lima.^[1] In that role, he was given permission to attend the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where he met Arcadia Yarnell of Baltimore;^[4] they married in 1877.^[1]

He briefly served as Bolivian consul general in New York City before returning to Bolivia, where he worked in imports/exports and banking until 1900, when he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury under José Manuel Pando.^[2]

In 1904, he was appointed Envoy;^[1] he was officially received by Theodore Roosevelt on May 27.^[5]

After the 1920 Bolivian coup d'état, Calderón retired as Envoy, and remained in Washington for the rest of his life.^[2]