Malcolm Toon
Malcolm Toon | |
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| United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | |
| In office July 31, 1969 – October 11, 1971 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Jacob D. Beam |
| Succeeded by | Albert W. Sherer, Jr. |
| United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia | |
| In office October 23, 1971 – March 11, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | William Leonhart |
| Succeeded by | Laurence H. Silberman |
| United States Ambassador to Israel | |
| In office July 10, 1975 – December 27, 1976 | |
| President | Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Kenneth B. Keating |
| Succeeded by | Samuel W. Lewis |
| United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union | |
| In office January 18, 1977 – October 16, 1979 | |
| President | Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Walter John Stoessel, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 4, 1916 Troy, New York |
| Died | February 12, 2009 (aged 92) Pinehurst, NC |
Malcolm Toon (July 4, 1916 – February 12, 2009)[1] was an American diplomat.
Life
Toon was born July 14, 1916 in Troy, New York.[2] Toons received an A. B. Degree from Tufts University in 1937, and an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in 1938. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946.[3]
A native of Troy, New York, he was married to Elizabeth Jane Taylor (died 1996) and they are interred at Arlington National Cemetery.[4]
Career
Toon was the ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1971, Yugoslavia from 1971 to 1975, Israel from 1975 to 1976, and the Soviet Union from 1977 to 1979. He participated in SALT II talks from 1977 to 1979 and the American-Soviet Summit in Vienna in 1979. In the 1990s, Toon co-chaired the U.S.-Russian Joint Commission on POW/MIAs with Russian general Dmitri Volkogonov. An article about Toon's briefing of the US press corps in Moscow 1977-79 was published in the US State Department's Foreign Service Journal in June 2011.[5]
References
- ^ "Toon, Former Ambassador, Dies". The Pilot. February 20, 2009. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- ^ Nominations of Carl J. Gilbert and Malcolm Toon: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, First Session. May 5, 1969. U.S. GovernmentPrint. Office. 1969.
- ^ Carter, Jimmy (1 January 1977). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977. Best Books on. pp. 715–. ISBN 978-1-62376-764-8.
- ^ Goldstein, Richard (May 1, 2017). "Malcolm Toon Made Waves as a Diplomat, but His Death Went Largely Unreported". New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- ^ Knight, Robin (June 2011). "Malcolm Toon and the Moscow Press" (PDF). Foreign Service Journal: 39–43. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 8, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
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External links
- U.S. State Department Archives (People)
- Malcolm Toon has been interviewed as part of Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, a site at the Library of Congress.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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