Walter P. McConaughy

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Walter P. McConaughy (1953)

Walter Patrick McConaughy, Jr. (born September 11, 1908 in Montevallo , Alabama , † November 10, 2000 in Atlanta , Georgia ) was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to Burma between 1957 and 1959 and ambassador to South Korea from 1959 to 1961 , Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1961 and Ambassador to Pakistan from 1962 to 1966 . He last served as ambassador to the Republic of China in 1966 and 1974 .

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

After attending school, McConaughy completed an undergraduate degree at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC), from which he graduated in 1928 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied from 1928 to 1930 at Duke University and then entered the foreign service. At first he was Vice Consul in Tampico in Mexico from 1931 to 1932 and then moved to Japan , where he was first Vice Consul in Kobe between 1932 and 1934 and Vice Consul in Taihoku, which was then under the rule of the Japanese Empire , from 1934 to 1937 . After he was Vice Consul in Kobe again between 1937 and 1938, he served as Vice Consul in Osaka from 1938 to 1939 and then in 1939 as Vice Consul in Nagasaki for one month .

In 1941 McConaughy moved to the Embassy in the Republic of China as Second Secretary . He worked from 1942 to 1944 as Second Secretary and Consul at the Embassy in Bolivia and from 1944 to 1947 as First Secretary and Consul at the Embassy in Brazil , before returning to China in 1948 and serving as Head of the Consulate General in Shanghai until 1950 . In November 1950 he succeeded Karl Rankin as consul general in Hong Kong and remained there until June 1952. In 1952 he returned to the USA and was head of the China department at the US State Department until 1957 .

Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

On August 20, 1957, McConaughy took over his first ambassadorial post, succeeding Joseph C. Satterthwaite as ambassador to Burma. He worked there until November 2, 1959. He himself in turn replaced Walter C. Dowling as ambassador to South Korea on December 17, 1959 and remained in this diplomatic post until April 12, 1961, before Samuel D. Berger succeeded him on June 27, 1961 .

As the successor to J. Graham Parsons , McConaughy was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs on April 24, 1961 , and was thus head of the Far East Division in the US State Department. He held this position until December 3, 1961 and was replaced on December 4, 1961, by W. Averell Harriman . He himself became ambassador to Pakistan on March 20, 1962, succeeding William M. Rountree, and held this post until May 27, 1966.

Last McConaughy was born on June 28, 1966 successor to the former Admiral Jerauld Wright as US Ambassador to Taiwan and remained there until his retirement on April 4, 1974. In his local office dropped the improvement of Sino-US relations , the ultimately led to Richard Nixon being the first US president to visit the People's Republic of China in February 1972 as part of the so-called ping-pong diplomacy .

From his 1937 marriage with Dorothy Davis, the daughters Dru McConaughy and Patricia Myers emerged.

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  1. ↑ His successor as Consul General in Hong Kong was Julian F. Harrington in July 1952 , who was later Ambassador to Panama from 1955 to 1960 .
  2. ↑ William P. Snow , who was later ambassador to Paraguay, was succeeded as ambassador to Burma on December 1, 1959 .
  3. ↑ Eugene M. Locke was succeeded as ambassador to Pakistan on June 9, 1966 .
  4. ↑ Leonard S. Unger , the previous ambassador to Thailand , became his successor as ambassador to the Republic of China on May 25, 1974 .
personal data
SURNAME McConaughy, Walter P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McConaughy, Walter Patrick junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevallo , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2000
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia