Samuel Reber

Samuel Reber (born July 15, 1903 in East Hampton , New York , † December 25, 1971 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American diplomat. He served 27 years in the United States 'Foreign Service, including from December 11, 1952 to February 10, 1953 as the United States' High Commissioner for Germany.

Career

Samuel Reber, Jr. was born on July 15, 1903 in East Hampton , New York , into a military family. His father, US Army Signal Corps Colonel Samuel Reber (1864-1933), graduated from West Point in 1886 , and his mother Cecelia Sherman Miles (1869-1952) was the daughter of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles . He attended Groton School , graduated from Harvard University in 1925 and was there on the rowing eighth's team.

Honors

• 1958: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Volney Sewall Fulham, The Fulham Genealogy: With Index of Names and Blanks for Records (Ludlow, VT: 1909), 213; Thomas Townsend Sherman, Sherman Genealogy including families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England (NY: Tobias A. Wright, 1920), 388-9, 396; for Samuel Reber, Sr., see Peter R. DeMontravel, A Hero to his Fighting Men: Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925 (Kent State University Press, 1998), 293, 421n8: "Reber [Sr.] became Colonel im 1916 and was chief of the Army Aviation Section from 1914 to 1916. During World War I , after serving in the Twenty-eighth Division, he was deputy chief of staff of the Second Army, at the time of his death on April 16, 1933 he is Vice President of RCS Corporation of America. "; New York Times : "Col. S, Reber Dead," April 18, 1933 , accessed March 2, 2011; New York Times : Mrs. Samuel Reber, "September 11, 1952 , accessed March 2, 2011
2. ^ Current Biography Yearbook , 1950 (HH Wilson), 505
3. ^ New York Times : "Samuel Reber to Retire," May 30, 1953 , accessed March 1, 2011
4. ↑ Harvard Crimson : "Junior Eight Winner in Class Crew Regatta," November 5, 1924 , accessed March 7, 2011