Jack Vaughn

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Jack Vaughn (front row, third from left) at a meeting of former Peace Corps directors in 2011

Jack Hood Vaughn (born August 18, 1920 in Lame Deer , Columbus , Montana ; † October 29, 2012 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador several times and between 1965 and 1966 Assistant Secretary of State for Inter -American Affairs at the US State Department .

Life

Jack Hood Vaughn, one of five children of clothing entrepreneur LH Vaughn and his wife Lona Vaughn, graduated from school with a degree in Romance languages at the University of Michigan , which he completed in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then did military service in the US Marine Corps (USMC) during World War II , with whom he was deployed in the Pacific War. After the end of the war, he began postgraduate studies in economics at the University of Michigan, completing a Master of Science degree (M.Sc. Economics). He then worked for the USIA ( US Information Agency ) and head of a cultural center in Bolivia . He later moved to the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) , where he was program director for Mali , Mauritania and Senegal between 1959 and 1961 . He then became of Sargent Shriver in the newly founded on 1 March 1961 Peace Corps (Peace Corps) appointed and served there between March 1961 and April 1964 as Director for Latin America .

Vaughn was then appointed Ambassador of the United States to Panama on April 8, 1964 , where he presented his letter of accreditation on May 6, 1964 as the successor to Joseph S. Farland . He remained in that post until 27 February 1965 and was then of , Jr. Charles Wallace Adair replaced. On March 11, 1965, he was the successor to Thomas C. Mann Head of Inter-American Affairs ( Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs ) in the US State Department. He held this office until February 28, 1966, when Lincoln Gordon took over on March 9, 1966.

Jack Vaughn himself was on March 1, 1966 as the successor to Sargent Shriver, second director of the Peace Corps and held this position until April 30, 1969, whereupon Joseph Blatchford was his successor. He was then appointed US Ambassador to Colombia on May 27, 1969 , where he succeeded Reynold E. Carlson on January 9, 1969 with his credentials. He remained in this post until June 25, 1970 and was then replaced by Leonard J. Saccio . He then resigned in protest against the foreign policy of US President Richard Nixon , whose focus was on the Vietnam War and the Middle East conflict , while Vaughn feared the neglect of Latin America .

After retiring from government, Vaughn served as President of the National Urban Coalition and Dean of International Studies at Florida International University (FIU). He was also director of the international programming of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), which produced the foreign versions of Sesame Street , among other things , and president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America ( PPFA ) . In addition, he was temporarily chairman of Conservation International (CI), which campaigns for biodiversity worldwide, and chairman of Ecotrust , an organization founded to protect tropical rainforests .

His first divorced marriage to Joanne Smith had a daughter. From his second marriage to Margaret Weld came two other daughters and a son.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Panama on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ After the dismissal of Ambassador Joseph Farland F. acted Wallace W. Stuart (September 1963-January 1964) and Henry L. Taylor (April 1964-May 1964) as the charge d'affaires ad interim of the Embassy in Panama.
  3. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ^ Peace Corps: Directors (rulers.org)
  5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Colombia on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Vaughn, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaughn, Jack Hood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lame Deer , Columbus , Montana
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2012
Place of death Tucson , Arizona