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During World War I he served overseas as captain, Battery E, and as commanding officer, First Battalion, Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, Seventy-sixth Division, 1917-1919. He served as legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of foreign loans and railway payments, and secretary of the World War Debt Commission 1922-1924. He was assistant to the agent general for reparation payments, Berlin, Germany 1924-1927. He was general counsel and Paris representative for organizations created under the Dawes plan in 1927 and 1928.

Wigglesworth was elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Louis A. Frothingham . He was reelected to the Seventy-first and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from November 6 , 1928 , until his resignation November 13 , 1958 . He served as United States Ambassador To Canada from January 28 , 1959 , until his death in Boston on October 22 , 1960 . His interment was in Arlington National Cemetery .



  State Massachusetts
  District 14
  Before Louis A Frothingham
  After Joseph William Martin, Jr


  State Massachusetts
  District 13
  Before Robert Luce
  After James A Burke


  Title United States Ambassador To Canada
  Before Livingston T Merchant
  After Livingston T Merchant