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William Otto Anderson

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William Otto Anderson

Birth
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana, USA
Death
1 Jan 1964 (aged 43)
Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.8808035, Longitude: -76.9776494
Plot
Range 26 site 214
Memorial ID
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US Diplomat, Senior Foreign Service Officer. In WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, Volume 4, 1961 to 1968. William Otto Anderson served in the US Foreign service from 1945 to 1964 and was assigned to Capetown, Bangkok, Singapore and Berlin and became a key member of the Berlin Task Force in the early 1960s. Before his death he had attended the US Senior Seminar on Foreign Policy and was the Officer in Charge of Soviet Multilateral Political Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, DC. Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk stated that at the time of his colleague's death that no American knew more about Russia than "Otto". Otto published several monographs: "Chinese Communist Trade with Southeast Asia", 1956 and "A Study of National Communism", 1957. In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1963 from his Alma Mater, Wabash College, Indiana where he was Phi Beta Kappa in his junior and senior years and first in his class.
US Diplomat, Senior Foreign Service Officer. In WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA, Volume 4, 1961 to 1968. William Otto Anderson served in the US Foreign service from 1945 to 1964 and was assigned to Capetown, Bangkok, Singapore and Berlin and became a key member of the Berlin Task Force in the early 1960s. Before his death he had attended the US Senior Seminar on Foreign Policy and was the Officer in Charge of Soviet Multilateral Political Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, DC. Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk stated that at the time of his colleague's death that no American knew more about Russia than "Otto". Otto published several monographs: "Chinese Communist Trade with Southeast Asia", 1956 and "A Study of National Communism", 1957. In recognition of his achievements he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1963 from his Alma Mater, Wabash College, Indiana where he was Phi Beta Kappa in his junior and senior years and first in his class.


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