George C. McGhee

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George C. McGhee

George Crews McGhee (born March 10, 1912 in Waco , Texas , †  July 4, 2005 in Leesburg , Virginia ) was a United States Ambassador .

Life

McGhee studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Oklahoma and earned an honorary degree from the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity in 1933 . In the mid-1930s he studied with a Rhodes scholarship at Queen's College in Oxford , visited the German Reich during the holidays, learned the German language and received his doctorate in 1937. In 1939 he married Cecilia DeGolyer († 2002), who was elected one of the ten best dressed women in 1951 and gave birth to six children.

He became an oil prospector , found the West Tepetate oil field in Lake Charles in 1942 , an oil deposit in Louisiana, and became a dollar millionaire. During World War II he served in the Navy under the command of Curtis E. LeMay . In 1946 he joined the foreign service. In Turkey he organized support for the government of Themistoklis Sofoulis in the Greek civil war .

As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Kennedy Cabinet, at the end of December 1961 he instructed Alan G. Kirk , President of the Belgo-American Development Corporation, on voting behavior at the stock corporation " Union Minière ".

In 1963 he accompanied Joan Crawford to the Berlinale . 1969 he was appointed as special envoy to the retirement staggered.

In 1989, McGhee donated his villa in Alanya to Georgetown University as the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies . He bequeathed his icon collection to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art . Since 1993 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Crews McGhee, 93, Oil Prospector and Diplomat, Dies . In: The New York Times , July 24, 2005
  2. ↑ nndb.com
  3. ↑ US Ambassador: As a development aid . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1963 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Katanga. Secret assignment for Kirk . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1962 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Joan Crawford . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1963 ( online ).
  6. ^ Member History: George Crews McGhee. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 3, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
December 1951 to 1953 		Henry A. Byroade
George Wadsworth US Ambassador to Turkey
1952 to 1953 		Livingston T. Merchant
Walter C. Dowling US ambassador to Germany from
May 1963 to May 1968 		Henry Cabot Lodge

personal data
SURNAME McGhee, George C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McGhee, George Crews (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Waco , Texas
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 2005
Place of death Leesburg , Virginia
  1. ↑ bundesarchiv.de