Kingman Brewster

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Kingman Brewster, Jr. (born June 17, 1919 in Longmeadow , Massachusetts , † November 8, 1988 in Oxford , England ) was an American lawyer , professor and diplomat who, among other things, was President of Yale University from 1963 to 1977 1977-1981 Ambassador of the United States in the United Kingdom , and between 1986 and his death in 1988 Master of University College of the University of Oxford was.

Life

Kingman Brewster, Jr., son of attorney Kingman Brewster, Sr. and his wife Florence Foster Besse Ballantine, began an undergraduate degree at Yale University after attending Belmont Hill School , which he completed in 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) . During his studies he was the editor of the Yale Daily News and was part of the so-called Liberal Establishment , a group that included Paul Moore , Cyrus Vance and many other Yale College graduates . A postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Harvard University , he completed in 1948 with a Juris Doctor (JD). In 1950 he became a lecturer and 1953 professor at the law faculty of Yale University and taught there until 1960. During this time he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1956 . In 1960 he succeeded Norman Buck Provost of Yale University and held this office until 1963, whereupon he was replaced by Charles Taylor. In this role, conflicts arose with Joseph S. Fruton over the organization of biochemistry , emerging molecular biology and biophysics at Yale University.

After the death of Alfred Whitney Griswold on April 19, 1963, Brewster became President of Yale University and held the office until 1977, when Hanna Holborn Gray became his successor. As President of Yale University, he was recognized for his improvements in faculties, curriculum, and admissions guidelines, as well as his adept handling of student protests in the late 1960s. On June 23, 1967, it appeared on the cover of Time news magazine under the heading The Precarious Future of the Private College . He was one of the main political opponents of US President Richard Nixons and was thus on the Master list of Nixon's political opponents .

On April 29, 1977 Winthrop Williams Aldrich was appointed as the successor to Anne Armstrong as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and delivered his credentials there on June 3, 1977 . He remained in this post until February 23, 1981 and was then replaced by John J. Louis . He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations . He was last in 1986 successor to Arnold Goodman as Master of University College of the University of Oxford . He held this position until his death on November 8, 1988, when John Albery was his successor. In 1987 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for his profound efforts in Anglo-American understanding .

His 1942 marriage to Mary Louise Phillips Brewster gave birth to their son Alden Brewster, who works as an investment banker and is the father of Jordana Brewster . After his death from an intracerebral haemorrhage in John Radcliffe Hospital , Oxford, he was buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven .

Publications

  • Antitrust and American business abroad , 1958
  • Law and United States business in Canada , 1960
  • The generation of reappraisal: American students, 1968 , 1968
  • Educating for the twenty-first century , 1969
  • Act of State and Extraterritorial Reach. Problems of Law and Policy , 1983

Background literature

  • Geoffrey Kabaservice: The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment , 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for United Kingdom on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Brewster, Kingman.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brewster, Kingman, Jr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, professor, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Longmeadow , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1988
Place of death Oxford , England