Robert Sherwood Dillon

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Robert Sherwood Dillon (1982)

Robert Sherwood Dillon (born January 7, 1929 in Chicago , Illinois ) is a former American diplomat who was ambassador to Lebanon between 1981 and 1983 .

Life

Robert Sherwood Dillon performed after school between 1947 and 1948 military service in the US Army and then began an undergraduate degree at Duke University , which he completed in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1951 to 1956 and joined the Foreign Ministry's diplomatic service in 1956 . From 1956 to 1958 he was a consular officer at the consulate in Puerto La Cruz in Venezuela and then from 1958 to 1959 a lecturer in economics at Princeton University , before he was economics officer in the Department for the Middle East and South Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1959 to 1960 . He then worked as an economic advisor at the Consulate General in Izmir between 1960 and 1962 and as a political advisor at the embassy in Turkey from 1962 to 1966 . On his return he found from 1966 to 1968 use as a personnel officer at the State Department, and from 1968 to 1969 as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs ) , Eugene V. Rostow . In 1970 he returned to the Embassy in Turkey, where he was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Ambassador until 1971 and then from 1971 to 1974 Head of the Turkey Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dillon then served as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Malaysia from 1974 to 1977 and from 1977 to 1981 as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Turkey, before he was Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Egypt from 1980 to 1980 . Most recently, he was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Lebanon on June 19, 1981 , and handed over his letter of accreditation there on June 26, 1981 as the successor to John Gunther Dean . He remained in this post until October 11, 1983, when Reginald Bartholomew was his successor. In 2004 his memoirs One of the Very Best Men and in 2005 a biography of his father Dale Crowell Dillon under the title An American Soldier in World War I.

Publications

  • One of the Very Best Men , Memoirs, 2004, memoir
  • An American Soldier in World War I , 2005

Web links

Commons : Robert Sherwood Dillon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Lebanon on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
predecessor Office successor
John Gunther Dean Ambassador to Lebanon
1981–1983 		Reginald Bartholomew
personal data
SURNAME Dillon, Robert Sherwood
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois