Joseph C. Satterthwaite
Joseph Charles Satterthwaite (born March 14, 1900 in Tecumseh , Michigan ; † November 19, 1990 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador to Ceylon between 1949 and 1953, and consul general in Tangier from 1953 to 1955 , was Ambassador to Burma between 1955 and 1957 and Director General of the Diplomatic Service from 1957 to 1958. In 1958 he became the first Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and, after finishing this position, was the last Ambassador to South Africa between 1961 and 1965 .
Life
Studies, World War I and the beginning of a diplomatic career
Satterthwaite joined the US Army in 1918 after completing school and served in Europe during the final months of the First World War . After the war he first took up an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course at the University of Michigan with a Master of Arts (MA).
He entered the diplomatic service in 1924 and initially worked at the consulate in Stuttgart . In the following period he worked at the diplomatic missions in Mexico , Argentina and Iraq until the beginning of the Second World War and was employed at the diplomatic missions abroad in Turkey and in the League of Nations mandate for Syria during the Second World War . After his return to the USA, he was initially deputy head of the Middle East department and later the officer in charge of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa department.
Ambassador and Director General of the Foreign Service
On November 19, 1949, Satterthwaite took over the post of Ambassador to Ceylon from Felix Cole and remained at this post until July 25, 1949. On September 8, 1953, he himself replaced John Carter Vincent as Consul General in Tangier and thus head of the diplomatic mission in Tangier Morocco from. He held this diplomatic post until May 1, 1955. Subsequently, Satterthwaite became ambassador to Burma on May 10, 1955 and thus successor to William J. Sebald . He held this post as ambassador until April 1, 1957, before Walter P. McConaughy, the previous head of China, became the new ambassador to Burma on August 20, 1957 .
After his return to the United States, Satterthwaite succeeded Raymond A. Hare as Director General of the Foreign Service on May 6, 1957 . In this function he was General Director of the Foreign Service until September 1, 1958, and thus responsible for staffing the diplomatic missions abroad.
Assistant Secretary of State and Retirement
After the US Congress authorized the State Department on July 18, 1958, to appoint an eleventh Assistant Secretary of State and thereby create a unit for the newly independent states of Africa, Satterthwaite became the first Assistant Secretary of State for African on September 2, 1958 Affairs and as such head of the Bureau of African Affairs . He held this office until January 31, 1961 and was replaced on the following February 1, 1961 by the previous Democratic governor of Michigan G. Mennen Williams .
Most recently, on May 22, 1961, Satterthwaite succeeded Philip K. Crowe again, this time as ambassador to the Union of South Africa . After the Republic of South Africa emerged from this on May 31, 1961 , he received a new accreditation letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , which was no longer formally presented. He held the post of ambassador in South Africa until November 17, 1965, when he retired.
After retiring from the diplomatic service, Satterthwaite worked intermittently as a consultant to NASA and the think tank RAND Corporation . His daughter Ruth Satterthwaite Hartmann emerged from his marriage to Leyla Ilbars in 1945. He died at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, from the effects of pneumonia .
Web links
- Entry on the page of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
- JC Satterthwaite, A Director General Of Foreign Service . In: The New York Times of November 27, 1990
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip K. Crowe became his successor as ambassador in Ceylon on September 19, 1949 .
- ↑ Julius C. Holmes became his successor as Consul General in Tangier on July 7, 1955 .
- ↑ On November 17, 1958, Waldemar John Gallman , the previous ambassador to Iraq, was succeeded as Director General of the Foreign Service .
- ↑ William M. Rountree , who was previously ambassador to Sudan, was succeeded as ambassador to South Africa on January 8, 1966 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Satterthwaite, Joseph C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Satterthwaite, Joseph Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tecumseh , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1990 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |