US Diplomat, US Ambassador. He served as assistant secretary of labor under the Truman administration and deputy mission chief at the U.S. Embassy in London, England. He was the former United States ambassador to Austria, Hungary, Senegal and Mauritania. He served as a presidential appointee in the administrations of Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and his secondary education from Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. During the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, he played a key role in convincing Senegalese president Leopold Sedar Senghor, to deny the Soviet Union the use of the nation's capital as a refueling station for its military aircraft. He died from respiratory problems in the nation's capital at the age of 93.
US Diplomat, US Ambassador. He served as assistant secretary of labor under the Truman administration and deputy mission chief at the U.S. Embassy in London, England. He was the former United States ambassador to Austria, Hungary, Senegal and Mauritania. He served as a presidential appointee in the administrations of Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and his secondary education from Oxford University in England as a Rhodes Scholar. During the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962, he played a key role in convincing Senegalese president Leopold Sedar Senghor, to deny the Soviet Union the use of the nation's capital as a refueling station for its military aircraft. He died from respiratory problems in the nation's capital at the age of 93.
Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.
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