John Alexander McKesson III (1922 – May 21, 2002) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Gabon (1970-1975).[1] McKesson was also the Associate Editor of Arts d'Afrique Noire and an adjunct Professor of politics at the Institute of French Studies at New York University.[2]
Biography
editMcKesson entered Columbia University as a junior and went on to receive an AB and MA. After serving four years in the navy during World War II and working for a short time at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, he joined the Foreign Service in 1947.[3]
References
edit- ^ "John A. McKsson III". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Deaths MCKESSON, JOHN ALEXANDER". The New York Times. June 2, 2002. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JOHN A. MCKESSON, III" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 7 May 1990. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
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