Joseph Carlton Petrone (November 30, 1922 Marshalltown, Iowa[1] - March 24, 2016 Naples, Florida) was an American Army Colonel and the Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva.[2][3]
Personal life
editA 1944 West Point graduate, Petrone served as a lieutenant in George Patton's 3rd Army in the Battle of the Bulge. In the United States, Petrone was a White House military aide under President Eisenhower and assistant military attaché to France. He retired from the army in 1970 having achieved the rank of colonel.[2][1]
Petrone died at his home in Naples. He and his wife Augusta Henderson also lived in Dublin, New Hampshire.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Ambassador Joseph Petrone dies". Times-Republican. March 26, 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ a b c Morrill, Priscilla (March 28, 2016). "Ambassador Joseph Petrone, 93, mourned". Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Joseph Carlton Petrone (1922–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
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