Angier Biddle Duke

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Angier Biddle Duke

Angier Biddle Duke (born November 30, 1915 in New York City , † April 29, 1995 in Southampton , New York ) was an American diplomat .

Life

Angier Biddle Duke was born in Manhattan . His parents were Cordelia Drexel Biddle and Angier Buchanan Duke . He broke off his studies at Yale University in 1937 in order to rise from private to major in the US Army from 1940 to 1945 .

In 1949, Angier Biddle Duke began his foreign service. From 1952 to 1953 he represented the Truman government in the government of Óscar Osorio Hernández in El Salvador. At the age of 36, he was the youngest US ambassador. From 1953 to 1961 Duke was President of the International Rescue Committee and worked for The Pond in Hungary.

From 1960 to 1965 he was chief of protocol under the John F. Kennedy and Johnson administrations. From 1965 to 1967 he was Johnson's ambassador to Francisco Franco .

On the morning of January 17, 1966, an air refueling maneuver of a Boeing B-52 failed . One of the four atomic bombs fell in the Mediterranean near Palomares . Propaganda and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga trivialized the incident and invited the press to a bath with Biddle Duke at Palomares. From 1968 to 1969 Duke was US ambassador to Denmark. From 1979 to 1981 Angier Biddle Duke was the Carter government's ambassador to Sultan Hassan II in Morocco .

From 1992 to 1995 Duke was chairman of the Council of American Ambassadors of the US Political Appointees . He was chairman of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America , a public relations organization for the Contra .

He fatally collided with a motor vehicle while rollerblading . His correspondence can be found at his family's Duke University .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert network: progressives, the International Rescue Committee, and the CIA, p. 133
  2. ^ The New York Times , September 11, 2008, Spanish Town Struggles to Forget Its Moment on the Brink of a Nuclear Cataclysm
  3. ↑ The New York Times , May 1, 1995, Angier Biddle Duke, 79, to Ambassador And Scion of Tobacco Family, Has Died
predecessor Office successor
George P. Shaw US Ambassador to El Salvador
1952–1953 		Michael J. McDermott
Robert F. Woodward US Ambassador to Spain
1965–1967 		Robert F. Wagner junior
Katharine Elkus White US Ambassador to Denmark
1968–1969 		Guilford Dudley
Richard Bordeaux Parker US Ambassador to Morocco
1979–1981 		Joseph Verner Reed, Jr.
personal data
SURNAME Duke, Angier Biddle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1995
Place of death Southampton , New York