William D. Pawley
William Douglas Pawley (born September 7, 1896 in Florence , South Carolina , † January 1977 in Miami Beach , Florida ) was an American diplomat and acquirer of Curtiss-Wright .
Life
William Douglas Pawley was the son of Mary Irene Wallace († April 11, 1974) and Edward Porcher Pawley. Georg Pawley was one of his ancestors. He was married to Annie Hahr Dobbs from Marietta, Georgia from July 25, 1919 to 1941 . Their four children included William Douglas Pawley Jr.
He attended schools in Havana and Santiago de Cuba and became a cadet at Gordon College . To stimulate aircraft sales after World War I , the father of commercial aviation, Clement Melville Keys of Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company , founded airlines. On October 8, 1927, Curtiss-Wright founded the Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss, SA and appointed William D. Pawley as its chairman. Pan American World Airways bought the company in 1932. William Pawley became chairman of the board of directors of Intercontinent Corporation in New York, also a Curtiss-Wright company.
From 1933 to 1938 he was President of the China National Aviation Corporation in Shanghai , which was also bought by Pan American World Airways. From 1938 to May 1942 he was a partner in the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company , which relocated its workshop from Hangzhou via Wuhan to Loi wing in Burma in line with the course of the Second Sino-Japanese War .
In 1941 he and his brothers Edward and Eugene organized a completely knocked-down production of Curtiss P-40s for the American Volunteer Group at Rangoon International Airport . The fact that the equipment for the Flying Tigers was a Curtiss-Wright product was due to the work of William Douglas Pawley. Claire Lee Chennault told FBI officials that the operation involved bribery . In 1944 Pawley became president of Hindustan Aeronautics in Bangalore. He organized the construction of a plant for the production of ammonium sulfate in Travancore .
From July 20, 1945 to April 27, 1946, Pawley was the United States Ambassador in Lima . From June 13, 1946 to March 26, 1948 he was ambassador to Rio de Janeiro . In April 1952, Robert A. Lovett sent him as a special envoy to Paris to knead the French morally. After long negotiations, Pawley managed to relax the French control regulations with René Pleven .
He was a close friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Allen Welsh Dulles . For Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential election in the United States in 1952 , he was a notorious Republican and chaired the Democrats for Eisenhower . With the help of William Douglas Pawley, three Curtiss P-40s were used in Operation PBSUCCESS .
He killed himself with a long gun due to an illness of herpes zoster . In his book The Last Investigation alleged Gaeton Fonzi that William Pawley suicide committed when he learned that he was possibly related to a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy should be consulted.
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Douglas Pawley Jr.
- ↑ Der Spiegel , December 24, 1952, DEFENSE BUILDINGS , Oops-Hopp company
- ↑ Anthony R. Carrozza, William D. Pawley : The Extraordinary Life of the Adventurer, Entrepreneur, p 191
- ↑ spartacus schoolnet , JFKpawley
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| John Campbell White |
United States Ambassador to Peru July 20, 1945 to April 27, 1946 |
Prentice Cooper |
| Adolf Augustus Berle |
United States Ambassador to Brazil June 13, 1946 to March 26, 1948 |
Herschel Johnson |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pawley, William D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pawley, William Douglas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat and Curtiss-Wright Acquirer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence , South Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1977 |
| Place of death | Miami Beach , Florida |