Robert F. Woodward

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Robert Forbes Woodward (1961)

Robert Forbes Woodward (born October 1, 1908 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † May 18, 2001 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was ambassador several times and between 1961 and 1962 Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs was at the US State Department .

Life

Studies and entry into the diplomatic service

Robert Forbes Woodward, son of Charles Emerson Woodward and his wife Ella Robertson Woodward, completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota after attending school , which he completed in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then joined the US State Department as a Foreign Service Officer in 1931 and was initially Vice Consul in Winnipeg between 1932 and 1933 . He then visited the Foreign Service Training School in 1933 and then acted as Vice Consul in Buenos Aires between 1933 and 1936 and as Vice Consul in Asunción for a time in 1935 . After he was third secretary and vice-consul at the embassy in Colombia from 1936 to 1937 , he worked as vice consul in Rio de Janeiro between 1937 and 1938 and as assistant in the department for Latin America in the Foreign Ministry from 1938 to 1942 . During this time he completed a postgraduate degree at George Washington University in 1941 and was then between 1942 and 1944 Second Secretary and Consul at the Embassy in Bolivia .

Then Woodward was 1944 again auxiliary Deputy Head of Division for Latin America at the State Department, and from 1944 to 1946 Second Secretary at the Embassy in Guatemala before he 1946 to 1947 Counselor at the Embassy in Cuba was. He served as deputy head of the Inter-American Affairs Division at the State Department from 1947 to 1949 and was seconded to the Naval War College (NWC) in Newport between 1949 and 1950 . He was then employed from 1950 to 1952 as Counselor at the Embassy in Sweden and from 1952 to 1953 as Head of the Department for Personnel Affairs of the Foreign Service, before he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter -American Affairs) was.

Embassy and Assistant Secretary of State

On September 24, 1954, Robert F. Woodward was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Costa Rica and handed over his letter of accreditation there on December 3, 1954 as the successor to Robert C. Hill . He remained in this post until March 15, 1958, when Whiting Willauer became his successor there. Subsequently, he himself was again appointed ambassador to Uruguay on March 26, 1958 , where he handed over his credentials on April 21, 1958 as the successor to Jefferson Patterson . He held this office until March 29, 1961 and was then replaced by Edward J. Sparks . He was then appointed ambassador to Chile on April 18, 1961 and presented his accreditation as successor to Walter Howe on May 5, 1961 . He held this post until July 6, 1961, when Charles W. Cole succeeded him there. During this time he was chairman of the US delegation to the Latin American business delegation in Santiago de Chile .

On July 17, 1961, Robert F. Woodward succeeded Thomas C. Mann as Head of the Inter-American Affairs Division ( Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs ) at the State Department. He held this office until March 17, 1962, before Edwin M. Martin took over this position on May 18, 1962. In 1962 the University of the Pacific awarded him an honorary degree in law. Most recently he was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Spain on April 7, 1962 and presented his letter of accreditation as the successor to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle . He remained in this post until February 1, 1965, when he was replaced by Angier Biddle Duke . He was then between 1965 and 1967 advisor to the special negotiator for the negotiations with Panama on the treaties on the Panama Canal and in 1967 acting head of the Department for International Law and Freedom of the High Seas in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Functions in retirement, as well as marriage and family

After retiring from the diplomatic service in 1968, Woodward remained an advisor to the State Department and, since 1969, the RAND Corporation . In 1970, he served as Acting Provost of Elbert Covell College , the School of the Spanish language at the University of the Pacific, and headed for the RAND Corporation in 1971 a study of the Panama Canal for the War Office ( US Department of the Army ) . In 1972 he also became an advisor to the non-profit exchange organization Youth For Understanding (YFU) and also wrote a study in 1972 on the benefits of UNESCO for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAKMR) between 1972 and 1976 and during this period from 1974 to 1975 he was also the coordinator of the US chief delegate in the working group with Latin American and Caribbean governments on transnational corporations.

Robert F. Woodward was married to Virginia Parker Cooke from February 20, 1943 until her death in January 1990. From this marriage a daughter and a son were born.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Costa Rica on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Uruguay on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Chile on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ^ Assistant Secretaries of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  5. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Spain on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
personal data
SURNAME Woodward, Robert F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodward, Robert Forbes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2001
Place of death Washington, DC