Ignacio Calderón (July 31, 1848 in La PazCALDERON, Ignacio, in Who's Who in America v. 11 (1920-1921 edition); p. 715-716—April 26, 1927 in Washington, DC) was a Bolivian politician and diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to the United States, representing the government of Ismael Montes.Dreams of the Railroad, in The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics; edited by Sinclair Thomson, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, and Mark Goodale; published 2018 by Duke University Press
Career 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. In that role, he was given permission to attend the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where he met Arcadia Yarnell of Baltimore;SENORA CALDERON DIES IN WASHINGTON --- Wife of Bolivian Minister Came of Good Southern Stock., in The Boston Globe; published November 8, 1909; p. 14 they married in 1877.
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.Currency Reforms in South America, by Harry T. Collings, in Current History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (June, 1927), pp. 475-478 (p. 477 - "Bolivia")
In 1904, he was appointed Envoy; he was officially received by Theodore Roosevelt on May 27.Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904; at the Office of the Historian
Later life After the 1920 Bolivian coup d'état, Calderón retired as Envoy, and remained in Washington for the rest of his life.
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