Edwin M. Martin

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Edwin M. Martin (1963)

Edwin McCammon Martin (born May 21, 1908 in Dayton , Ohio ; † January 12, 2002 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador several times and from 1960 to 1962 Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and between Was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs at the US State Department in 1962 and 1964 .

Life

Studies, World War II and entry into the diplomatic service

Edwin McCammon Martin began after school attendance first a postgraduate study at Northwestern University , which he graduated in 1929 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed postgraduate studies at Northwestern University between 1929 and 1935, but did not earn another degree.Instead, he worked as an economist in the Central Statistics Board from 1935 to 1938 and in the Department of Labor Statistics from 1938 to 1940 (Bureau of Labor Statistics) . After he was special assistant to the National Defense Advisory Commission from 1940 to 1941 , he worked during the Second World War between 1941 and 1943 as an assistant to the manufacturing department of the Office of Production Management ( OPM ) or the one that emerged from it in January 1942 Office of war production ( war production Board ) . He was also a 1942 Associate Director of ammunition Office and then 1943-1944 first head of the emergency department of the War Production Board, before 1944-1945 deputy head of a department of the Office of Strategic Services OSS ( Office of Strategic Services ) of the Ministry of War was.

Towards the end of the war, Martin entered the service of the US State Department and was initially a consultant for economic affairs in the Far East between May and August 1945 and then a consultant for economic affairs in Japan from August to October 1945 . He then acted between 1945 and 1947 as head of the department for economic affairs of Japan and Korea and in August 1946 for a short time as acting head of the department for economic security policy. After he was acting head of the department for economic affairs of occupied territories from 1947 to 1948, he took over the post as deputy head of the department for international trade policy between 1947 and 1949. He then served from 1949 to 1952 as head of the European Regulatory Affairs unit and from 1952 to 1953 as special assistant to US Secretary of State Dean Acheson . From 1954 to 1957 he was Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission to NATO and the European regional organizations in Paris, as well as being a representative at the North Atlantic Council . This was followed by posts as Counselor at the Embassy in the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1958 and as Consul General in London between 1958 and 1960 .

Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador

On August 27, 1960, Edwin M. Martin was appointed head of the Department of Economic Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs ) in the State Department and officially took over this position as the successor to Thomas C. Mann on September 4, 1960. He held this office until May 17, 1962, when Gove Griffith Johnson, Jr. succeeded him. In November 1961, he also served as the first advisor to the US- Japan Joint Committee on Trade and Economic Affairs. He himself was appointed head of the Inter-American Affairs subdivision ( Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs ) in the US State Department on May 12, 1962 , and took this position as the successor to Robert F. Woodward on May 18, 1962. He held this position until January 2, 1964, after which Thomas C. Mann took over this position again on January 3, 1964.

Martin was then appointed Ambassador of the United States to Argentina , where he presented his letter of accreditation on June 11, 1964 as the successor to Robert McClintock . He remained in this post until January 5, 1968, when Carter L. Burgess was his successor there. After that, he served from 1968 to 1974 as Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee ( Development Assistance Committee ) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In this position he was appointed Career Ambassador on August 11, 1968 . He then held the post of Chairman of the Advisory Group on Food Production in Developing Countries in the World Bank from 1975 to 1978 .

Edwin M. Martin was also involved in the Council on Foreign Relations and was a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa . His marriage to Margaret Milburn in 1936 resulted in a daughter and a son.

publication

  • Kennedy and Latin America (1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Argentina on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ^ Career Ambassadors on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Edwin M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Edwin McCammon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dayton , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2002
Place of death Washington, DC