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Alfred Leroy Atherton, Jr. (b. 1921) —
also known as Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. —
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., November
22, 1921.
Son of Alfred Leroy Atherton and Joan (Reed) Atherton.
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.
Still living as of 1991.
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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.
Daughter of Charles
Eustis Bohlen and Avis Howard (Thayer) Bohlen (1912-1981).
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1996-99.
Female.
Member, Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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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 2009.
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Selden Chapin (1899-1963) —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., September
19, 1899.
Son of Frederic L. Chapin and Grace (Selden) Chapin.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Hankow, 1925-26; 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 March 26,
1963 (age 63 years, 188
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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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.
Son of George Culbertson and Jennie (Smith) Culbertson.
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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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.
Son of Thomas
Dickson Finletter and Helen (Grill) Finletter.
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 NATO, 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.
Son of Alexander Meigs Haig, Sr. and Regina Anne (Murphy) Haig.
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 Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Son of Edward
Lawrence Katzenbach and Marie
Hilson Katzenbach.
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; Presidential Elector for New Jersey, 1996.
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).
Burial
location unknown.
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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, 1929; U.S. Consul in Berlin, 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.
Son of Arthur MacArthur (1876-1923) and Mary Hendry (McCalla)
MacArthur (1877-1959).
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Vancouver, 1935; Naples, 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.
Son of John McCloy and Anna (Snader) McCloy.
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 1991.
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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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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-.
Member, American Bar
Association; Council on Foreign Relations.
Still living as of 2009.
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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.
Lawyer;
Dakota
County Attorney, 1931-38; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Minnesota, 1936,
1940;
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; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1948,
1952,
1964,
1968,
1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1992;
candidate in Republican primary for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1958; Republican 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 (b. 1915) —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny
County, Pa., June 7,
1915.
Son of Kenneth Hammet Talbot and Gertrude (Phillips) Talbot.
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.
Still living as of 1991.
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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.
Son of Charles Garland Thornburgh and Alice (Sandborn) Thornburgh.
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 2009.
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