John Gunther Dean

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John Gunther Dean (birth name: John Gunther ready for duty ; born February 24, 1926 in Breslau , Lower Silesia Province , Free State of Prussia , German Empire ; † June 6, 2019 ) was an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to various states.

Life

Ready for duty, grew up in a Jewish family who fled National Socialism to the USA. He attended Kansas City High School and, after earning US citizenship during World War II, served in the US Army from 1944 to 1945 , taking the surname Dean. After the war he completed an undergraduate degree at Harvard University , which he completed in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science (BS). During a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the University of Paris - Sorbonne , he obtained a doctorate in law in 1949 . He completed another postgraduate course in international relations at Harvard University in 1950 with a Master of Arts (MA International Relations).

1954 Dean joined the diplomatic service and was for various uses between 24 September 1960 and 17 January 1961 as chargé d'affaires ad interim acting head of the embassy in Mali . This was followed by further uses in the US State Department before he was appointed ambassador to the Khmer Republic on March 14, 1974 . He handed over his letter of accreditation there on April 3, 1974 as the successor to Colby Swank and remained in this post until the closure of the embassy in the course of the first civil war on April 12, 1975. After that, on October 23, 1975, he took over the office of ambassador to Denmark where he handed over his credentials on November 6, 1975 as the successor to Philip K. Crowe . He held this position until July 18, 1978 and was then replaced by Warren Demian Manshel .

John Gunther Dean himself was then appointed ambassador to Lebanon on October 2, 1978 and presented his letter of accreditation to Parker on October 10, 1978 as the successor to Richard Bordeaux . He held the office of ambassador to Lebanon until June 23, 1981 and was then replaced by Robert Sherwood Dillon . He was then appointed ambassador to Thailand on October 1, 1981 , and handed over his credentials on October 26, 1981 as the successor to Morton I. Abramowitz . It remained in this use until June 6, 1985, before William Andreas Brown became his successor on July 5, 1985 .

Most recently, Dean was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to India on August 2, 1985 , where he presented his letter of accreditation on September 6, 1985, succeeding Harry G. Barnes . He held the post of ambassador until November 7, 1988, when he was succeeded by John R. Hubbard . His marriage to Martine Duphenieux had three children.

Web links

  • Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • John Gunther Dean in nndb (English)
  • Entry in The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Mali on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Cambodia on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Denmark on the website of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Lebanon on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  6. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Thailand on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  7. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for India on the site of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Dean, John Gunther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ready for duty, John Gunther (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Breslau , Province of Lower Silesia , Free State of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2019