Raymond A. Hare

Raymond Arthur Hare (born April 3, 1901 in Martinsburg , West Virginia , † February 9, 1994 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador to Turkey between 1961 and 1965 and assistant secretary from 1965 to 1966 of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs .

Life

Studies and entry into the diplomatic service

Raymond Arthur Hare grew up in Boothbay Harbor and began an undergraduate degree at Grinnell College after attending school , which he completed in 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa , the oldest honor society in the USA founded in 1776 . He then worked as a teacher at Robert College in Constantinople from 1924 to 1927 and then from 1926 to 1927 at the American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant . He then entered the diplomatic service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was vice-consul in Constantinople between 1927 and 1929 . After he was a scholar for the Arabic language at the École des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris from 1929 to 1931 , he served for a short time in 1931 as secretary of the diplomatic service and vice-consul in Cairo . He was then employed from 1931 to 1932 as vice consul and language consultant at the embassy in France and from 1932 to 1933 as vice consul in Beirut .

After that, Hare was deployed to the embassy in Iran in 1933, where he was initially third secretary and vice-consul before he was consul between 1935 and 1939 . He then was second secretary at the legation in Egypt between 1939 and 1944 and at the same time at the legation in Saudi Arabia from 1940 to 1944 . In 1944 he moved to the embassy in the United Kingdom , where he was first secretary and consul until 1946. Having 1946-1947 to the National War College (NWC) in Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC was seconded, he served in the State Department from 1947 to 1948 as Head of Unit for South Asia (Chief, Division of South Asian Affairs) . From 1948 to 1949 he was Deputy Director, Office of Near East and African Affairs (Deputy Director, Office of Near East and African Affairs) and from 1949 to 1950 he was Deputy Head of the Middle East, South Asia and Africa Subdivision (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near East, South Asian & African Affairs) .

ambassador

On September 20, 1950, Raymond A. Hare was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Saudi Arabia and handed over his letter of accreditation there on October 24, 1950 as the successor to J. Rives Childs . He remained in this post until July 8, 1953 and was then replaced by George Wadsworth . As such, he was also accredited as ambassador to the Kingdom of Yemen since July 22, 1951 . He himself became the United States Ambassador to Lebanon on July 28, 1953 and presented his credentials on September 29, 1953 as the successor to Harold B. Minor . He held this post until October 1, 1954 and was then replaced by Donald R. Heath . After his return, he was the successor to Gerald A. Drew from October 19, 1954 until his replacement by Joseph C. Satterthwaite on August 29, 1956 Director General of the Foreign Service (Foreign Service) .

On March 10, 1958, Raymond Hare was appointed ambassador to Egypt and presented his credentials on September 25, 1956 as the successor to Henry A. Byroade . He remained in this position until December 18, 1959, after which Frederick Reinhardt took his place. He was also from March 19, 1958 to December 18, 1959 Ambassador of the United States to the United Arab Republic . In addition, on February 16, 1959, he was reappointed non-resident ambassador to the Kingdom of Yemen, where he presented his credentials on March 11, 1959. During his tenure, the agency was on 16 March 1959 in Taiz opened with Charles B. Ferguson as Acting charge d'affaires . He remained in this post until December 18, 1959, whereupon he was replaced by Frederick Reinhardt.

Deputy Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State

On January 21, 1960 Raymond A. Hare was appointed Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the State Department and held the office until March 5, 1961. During this time, he was on June 24, 1960 the title of Career Ambassador , the highest rank in the diplomatic service.

He was then appointed Ambassador of the United States to Turkey on February 24, 1961 and handed over his accreditation to succeed Fletcher Warren on April 5, 1961 . He held this position until August 27, 1965 and was then replaced by Parker T. Hart . Most recently, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs on September 11, 1965 as the successor to Phillips Talbot and was thus head of the Middle East and South Asia subdivision in the State Department until November 30, 1966. His successor there was on April 5, 1967 Lucius D. Battle .

After retiring from the diplomatic service, Hare was president of the Middle East Institute , a Washington, DC-based think tank, from 1966 to 1969 . His son Paul Julian Hare was also a diplomat and, among other things, was the United States Ambassador to Zambia between 1985 and 1988 . Raymond A. Hare died on February 9, 1994 of complications from pneumonia .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Raymond A. Hare in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Saudi Arabia on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Yemen on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Lebanon on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
4. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Egypt on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Yemen on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
6. ↑ Deputy Under Secretaries of State for Political Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the State Department
7. ^ Career Ambassadors on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
8. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Turkey on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
9. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Near Eastern Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the State Department

predecessor	Office	successor
Fletcher Warren	Ambassador to Turkey 1961–1965	Parker T. Hart
Phillips Talbot	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs 1965–1966	Lucius D. Battle