Walworth Barbour
Walworth Barbour (born June 4, 1908 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † July 21, 1982 in Gloucester , Massachusetts) was an American diplomat . He was the United States Ambassador to Israel from June 12, 1961 to January 19, 1973 .
Barbour went to school at Phillips Exeter Academy and studied at Harvard University , where he graduated in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts. He went into the foreign service . His first position abroad was in 1932 as Vice- Consul in Naples . Further stations were Greece, Iraq and Bulgaria. During the Second World War he was seconded as an officer at the US embassy in Egypt . In 1949 he was appointed advisor to the embassy in Moscow.
From 1952 he made a career in the US State Department . He initially headed the department for Eastern Europe issues and then became Deputy Assistant Secretary for all of Europe. In 1956, he was Chargé at the Embassy to the United Kingdom in London.
In 1961 he was appointed ambassador to Israel by US President John F. Kennedy to succeed Ogden R. Reid . During his tenure, the Six Day War and the exposure of the Israeli nuclear program in Dimona fell . He retired in 1973 when he was recalled from Israel. He was succeeded by Kenneth Keating .
For many years of service in the diplomatic corps, Barbour was named Career Ambassador in 1969 and received the State Department's Distinguished Service Award in 1971 .
Barbour was never married, he tried to arrange embassy receptions so that his sister Ellen Barbour could be his official companion as a guest.
The American International School in Even Yehuda , on the Sharon Plain , is named after him.
Web links
- Interview with Walworth Barbour for the Oral History Project at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Walworth Barbour Dies; Longtime Envoy to Israel , Washington Post obituary , July 23, 1982, page B6
- ↑ The résumé is largely based on: Walworth Barbour, Diplomat who Served 12 Years in Israel , obituary in the New York Times of July 26, 1982, page D7
- ↑ List of Career Ambassadors . US Department of State, Office of the Historian
- ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the school
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Barbour, Walworth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambridge , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1982 |
| Place of death | Gloucester , Massachusetts |