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Alfred Leroy Atherton Jr. (1921-2002) —
also known as Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
22, 1921.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Foreign Service officer;
U.S. Vice Consul in Stuttgart, 1947-50; U.S. Consul in Aleppo, 1957-58; Calcutta, 1962-65; U.S. Ambassador to , 1978-79; Egypt, 1979.
Unitarian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died October
30, 2002 (age 80 years, 342
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Avis Thayer Bohlen (b. 1940) —
also known as Avis T. Bohlen —
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., April
20, 1940.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1996-99.
Female.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Frank Charles Carlucci III (b. 1930) —
also known as Frank C. Carlucci —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa., October
18, 1930.
U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, 1975-78; U.S. National Security Advisor, 1986-87; U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1987-89.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Selden Chapin (1899-1963) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., September
19, 1899.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1925-27; U.S. Consul in Montevideo, 1940; U.S. Minister to Hungary, 1947-49; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1949-53; Panama, 1953-55; Iran, 1955-58; Peru, 1960.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in National City, San Diego
County, Calif., March
26, 1963 (age 63 years, 188
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Frederic L. Chapin and Grace Card (Selden) Chapin; married, March
30, 1927, to Mary Paul Noyes; father of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; grandnephew of Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919); second great-grandson of Roger
Griswold; third great-grandson of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799); third great-grandnephew of Erastus
Wolcott and Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin twice removed of Edmund
Gillett Chapin; first cousin four times removed of James
Hillhouse, Oliver
Wolcott Jr. and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin twice removed of John
William Allen and Henry
Titus Backus; second cousin four times removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin and Daniel
Chapin; third cousin twice removed of James
Samuel Wadsworth, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Zenas
Ferry Moody and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, William
Woodbridge, Phineas
Lyman Tracy, Isaac
Backus, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Albert
Haller Tracy, Marshall
Chapin and Thomas
Worcester Hyde; fourth cousin once removed of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth, George
Frederick Stone, James
Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward
Oliver Wolcott and Alfred
Wolcott. |
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family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Smith Culbertson (1884-1966) —
also known as William S. Culbertson —
of Kansas; Charmian, Franklin
County, Pa.
Born in Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, Pa., August
5, 1884.
Republican. Lawyer; economist;
university
professor; member, U.S. Tariff Commission, 1921-25; U.S. Minister
to Romania, 1925-28; U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1928-33.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Society for International Law; Phi
Beta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Delta
Phi Epsilon; American
Economic Association.
Died in 1966
(age about
81 years).
Burial location unknown.
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James B. Cunningham —
Born in Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 2005-.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2008.
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Relatives:
Married to Leslie Genier. |
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Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Jr. (1922-2016) —
also known as Walter J. P. Curley, Jr. —
of New York.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., September
17, 1922.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Ireland, 1975-77; France, 1989-93.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., June 2,
2016 (age 93 years, 259
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Hermann Frederick Eilts (1922-2006) —
also known as Hermann Eilts —
of Pennsylvania; Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Weissenfels, Germany,
March
23, 1922.
Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Army during World War
II; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1965-70; Egypt, 1974-79.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of heart
failure, in Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass., October
12, 2006 (age 84 years, 203
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Knight Finletter (1893-1980) —
also known as Thomas K. Finletter —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., November
11, 1893.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, 1941-44; Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, 1950-53; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
U.S. Ambassador to NationalO, 1961-65.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Delta
Phi; Americans
for Democratic Action; United
World Federalists.
Died in 1980
(age about
86 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. (1906-1983) —
also known as Thomas S. Gates, Jr. —
of Devon, Chester
County, Pa.
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., April
10, 1906.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1956;
U.S.
Secretary of Defense, 1959-61; U.S. Liaison to China, 1976-79.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
25, 1983 (age 76 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (1924-2010) —
also known as Alexander M. Haig, Jr. —
Born in Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery
County, Pa., December
2, 1924.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict;
served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; target of an assassination
attempt in Belgium, June 25, 1979; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1981-82; candidate for Republican nomination
for President, 1988;
host, World Business Review television
news show.
Catholic.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, from an infection,
at John Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., February
20, 2010 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (1922-2012) —
also known as Nicholas de B. Katzenbach —
of North Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; law
professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1965-66; general counsel for IBM,
1969-86; director, MCI Communications,
2002-04; candidate for Presidential Elector for New Jersey.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Skillman, Somerset
County, N.J., May 8,
2012 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Cremated.
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George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) —
also known as George F. Kennan —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
16, 1904.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Tallinn, as of 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, as of 1932; U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union, 1952; Yugoslavia, 1961; the government of the Soviet Union declared
him persona
non grata on October 3, 1952; received the 1956 Pulitzer
Prize in History for his book Russia Leaves the War;
received the 1968 Pulitzer
Prize in Biography for his Memoirs; received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March
17, 2005 (age 101 years,
29 days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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William Roscoe Kintner (1915-1997) —
also known as William R. Kintner —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in 1915.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean conflict; U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, 1973-75.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Co-founder, with Robert
Strausz-Hupé, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in
Philadelphia.
Died of cancer,
February
1, 1997 (age about 81
years).
Interment somewhere
in Bryn Athyn, Pa.
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Douglas MacArthur II (1909-1997) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery
County, Pa., July 5,
1909.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, as of 1935; Naples, as of 1937-38; Paris, 1944; U.S. Ambassador to Japan, 1957-61; Belgium, 1961-65; Austria, 1967-69; Iran, 1969-72.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, after a stroke
and heart
attack, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., November
15, 1997 (age 88 years, 133
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John Jay McCloy (1895-1989) —
also known as John J. McCloy; "Chairman of the
American Establishment" —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., March
31, 1895.
Lawyer;
banker;
president, World Bank, 1947-49; U.S. High Commissioner for the U.S.
Zone in Germany, 1949-52; member, President's Commission on the
Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., March
11, 1989 (age 93 years, 345
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Ronald DeWayne Palmer (b. 1932) —
also known as Ronald D. Palmer —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Uniontown, Fayette
County, Pa., May 22,
1932.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Togo, 1976-78; Malaysia, 1981-83; Mauritius, 1986-89.
African
ancestry. Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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William Thornton Pryce (1932-2006) —
also known as William T. Pryce —
of Pennsylvania; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., July 19,
1932.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, 1993-96.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, of pancreatic
cancer, in Alexandria,
Va., July 11,
2006 (age 73 years, 357
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Warren Scranton (1917-2013) —
also known as William W. Scranton —
of Dalton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.
Born in Madison, New Haven
County, Conn., July 19,
1917.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; lawyer; banker; U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania 10th District, 1961-63; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1963-67; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1964;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1964;
U.S. Representative to United Nations, 1976-77.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral
Commission; Chi Psi.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Montecito, Santa
Barbara County, Calif., July 28,
2013 (age 96 years, 9
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Laurence Hirsch Silberman (b. 1935) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in York, York
County, Pa., October
12, 1935.
U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1975-77; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1985-2000; took
senior status 2000.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2014.
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Harold Edward Stassen (1907-2001) —
also known as Harold E. Stassen —
of South St. Paul, Dakota
County, Minn.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in West St. Paul, Dakota
County, Minn., April
13, 1907.
Republican. Lawyer; Dakota
County Attorney, 1931-38; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1936,
1940
(Temporary
Chair; speaker);
Governor
of Minnesota, 1939-43; resigned 1943; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; among the founders of the United Nations, 1945
(in 2001, he was the last surviving signer of the UN Charter); president,
University of Pennsylvania, 1948-53; director, U.S. Mutual Security
Agency, 1953; candidate for Republican nomination for President, 1948,
1952,
1964,
1968,
1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1992;
candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1958; candidate for mayor
of Philadelphia, Pa., 1959; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1960;
Independent Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative from Minnesota 4th District, 1986.
Baptist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Delta
Sigma Rho; Gamma
Eta Gamma; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Council on Foreign Relations.
Died, at the Friendship Village nursing
home, Bloomington, Hennepin
County, Minn., March 4,
2001 (age 93 years, 325
days).
Interment at Acacia
Cemetery, Mendota Heights, Minn.
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Phillips Talbot (1915-2010) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 7,
1915.
Newspaper
reporter; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S.
Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69.
Presbyterian.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations; American
Political Science Association; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died October
1, 2010 (age 95 years, 116
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Lewis Thornburgh (b. 1932) —
also known as Richard L. Thornburgh; Dick
Thornburgh —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., July 16,
1932.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Pennsylvania, 1966; delegate
to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1967-68; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1969-75; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1979-87; U.S.
Attorney General, 1988-91; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2020.
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