Sheldon Whitehouse

Edwin Sheldon Whitehouse (February 5, 1883 – August 5, 1965) was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Minister to Guatemala and U.S. Minister to Colombia. Early life Whitehouse was born on February 5, 1883, in New York City. He was one of five children born to William Fitzhugh Whitehouse (1842–1909), a New York lawyer, and Frances Sheldon (1852–1944), the niece of William B. Ogden, the first Mayor of Chicago. His brothers included Norman Ogden Whitehouse, Henry John Whitehouse and William Fitzhugh Whitehouse Jr. His sister, Lily Whitehouse, was married to the Hon. Charles Coventry, a British Army officer who was the second son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry. Their son, and Whitehouse's nephew, was Francis Henry Coventry, 12th Earl of Coventry. Another sister was Frances Whitehouse, who married Baron Constantine Ramsay of Russia, a gentleman-in-waiting to the Czar Nicholas II of Russia, in 1903. His paternal grandparents were Henry John Whitehouse, the 2nd Episcopal Bishop of Illinois, and Evelina Harriet (née Bruen). Whitehouse was educated at Eton College, an English boarding school for boys in Eton, near Windsor. He graduated from Yale University in 1905.