Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in Baltimore, MD – October 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, NC[1]) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.
A graduate of Princeton University (1939),[2] Burns attended Harvard from 1950 to 1951 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961 to 1962. He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.[3]
Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941.[4] Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna.[2] He later served as ambassador to Jordan[5] (where he was stationed during the June 1967 Six-Day War), and he also served as an ambassador to Ecuador in 1970.[2][6]
From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York,[1] where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Burns, Jr. Findley". The Baltimore Sun. 16 October 2003.
- ^ a b c Erlandson, Robert A (2 August 1970). "An Ambassador Receives His Education". The Baltimore Sun. p. K5.
- ^ "Findley Burns Jr. '39". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 21 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Findley Burns Obituary (2003) - Washington, DC - The Washington Post". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Nominated". The News and Observer. Raleigh, North Carolina. United Press International. 3 October 1967. p. 3.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project FINDLEY BURNS JR.," (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 3 November 1988. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.