William Tapley Bennett Junior
William Tapley Bennett Jr. ( April 1, 1917 in Griffin , Georgia , † November 29, 1994 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat. He served under nine US governments .
His parents were Annie Mem Little and William Tapley Bennett. He graduated from the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Sigma Chi . From 1937 to 1938 Bennett made a diploma thesis at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . Bennett earned a law degree from George Washington University . In 1941 he joined the Foreign Service in Santo Domingo and interviewed German migrants. In 1944 he was at the US embassy in Panama. He served as the Counter Intelligence Corps officer. In 1945 he organized the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco with John Emil Peurifoy. On June 23, 1945 he married Margaret Rutherfurd White, the daughter of Henry White.
From 1951 to 1954 he was the associate director of the Office of South American Affairs . In 1953 he was an assistant at Milton Eisenhower. From 1954 to 1955 he studied at the National War College and was Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs for two years . From 1957 to 1964 he was accredited as counselor and ambassador to the embassies of Vienna, Rome and Athens.
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him on March 4, 1964 as the successor to John Bartlow Martin as ambassador for the Dominican Republic , where he was instrumental in Operation Power Pack until April 13, 1966 .
On May 10, 1966, Johnson appointed him ambassador to Portugal. On July 20, 1966, he was accredited by the government of António de Oliveira Salazar . On July 21, 1969 he was replaced by Ridgway B. Knight as ambassador. From 1971 to 1977 he served on the United Nations Security Council. From April 26, 1977 to March 31, 1983 he was permanent representative of the US government to NATO in Brussels .
From November 14, 1984 to January 4, 1985, he was Assistant Secretary of State at the United States Department of State in Washington to cover up US government involvement in the Óscar Romero murder .
After retiring in 1985, he was Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia. From 1991 to 1992 he was President of the Atlantic Treaty Association .
Individual evidence
- ^ Tad Szulc, Cuando los infantes de marina desembarcaron en Santo Domingo
- ^ The New York Times , December 1, 1994, William Tapley Bennett Jr., 77, Envoy to Dominican Republic
- ^ G. Pope Atkins, Larman Curtis Wilson, The Dominican Republic and the United States: from imperialism to transnationalism , University of Georgia Press, 1998, 293 pp. 134
- ↑ The New York Times , November 9, 1993, US, Aware of Killings, Worked With Salvador's Rightists, Papers Suggest
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bennett, William Tapley Jr. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bennett, William Tapley Jr .; Bennett, tap |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Griffin , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1994 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |