Robert Fred Ellsworth

Robert Fred Ellsworth (1965)

Robert Fred Ellsworth (born June 11, 1926 in Lawrence , Kansas , †  May 9, 2011 in Encinitas , California ) was an American politician . Between 1961 and 1963 he represented the second and from 1963 to 1967 the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives . He also served from 1969 to 1971 Ambassador of the United States in NATO .

Career

Robert Ellsworth attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Kansas . He later continued his education with a law degree at the University of Michigan . There he graduated in 1949. During World War II , Ellsworth was an officer in the US Navy between 1944 and 1946 . During the Korean War he returned to the Navy. In 1954 and 1955, Ellsworth was a teacher at the University of Kansas School of Business . Since 1949, he practiced as a lawyer in Springfield ( Massachusetts ). He was also a member of the Federal Naval Committee from 1953 to 1954.

Politically, Ellsworth was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1960 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC as their candidate in the second district of Kansas . There he took over from Newell A. George on January 3, 1961 . In the 1962 elections, he ran in the third electoral district. So he replaced on January 3, 1963 from Walter Lewis McVey in Congress , who had represented this district until then. After re-election in 1964, Ellsworth could remain in Congress until January 20, 1967.

In 1966, he decided not to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for this year's Senate election . In 1968 he held a leading position on the campaign team for Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon . The following year he became special advisor to the now-elected new President Nixon. This appointed him the US ambassador to NATO. Ellsworth held this position from 1969 to 1971. After that he was a partner in a New York law firm for several years. Between 1974 and 1975 he was division head in the Department of Defense and from December 1975 to January 1977 under President Gerald Ford Deputy Secretary of Defense.

Ellsworth remained politically active. Since 1977 he has held several positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London . From 2003 he was a member of a commission on that deal with the relations with China is concerned (US-China Economic Security Review Commission) . Robert Ellsworth lived in Comus ( Maryland ).

Web links

• Robert Fred Ellsworth in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Robert Fred Ellsworth in nndb (English)