Jonathan Brewster Bingham

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Jonathan Brewster Bingham

Jonathan Brewster Bingham (born April 24, 1914 in New Haven , Connecticut , † July 3, 1986 in New York ) was an American politician .

Bingham attended Groton School and then began studying at the Yale University , where he also in the 1936 fraternity Skull and Bones was recorded. He completed his studies in 1939. He then served as an ordinary soldier in the United States Army until 1945 and left it as a captain . Until 1946 he was then special assistant to the assistant state secretary , later deputy administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration (1951-1953). He was personal secretary to New York Governor W. Averell Harriman from 1955 to 1958 and a member of the United Nations Trust Committee from 1961 to 1962 . From 1965 to 1983 he represented New York State in the United States Congress. He was also a member of the Americans for Democratic Action and the Council on Foreign Relations .

He was the son of Connecticut State Senator and Governor Hiram Bingham and the great-grandson of famous jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany . He married June Rossbach, the great niece of former New York Governor Herbert H. Lehman .

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SURNAME Bingham, Jonathan Brewster
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1986
Place of death new York