Angier Biddle Duke

Angier Biddle Duke ( born November 30, 1915 in New York City; † April 29, 1995 in Southampton, New York) was an American diplomat.

Life

Angier Biddle Duke was born in Manhattan. Cordelia Drexel Biddle His parents were and Angier Buchanan Duke. He broke in 1937 to study at Yale University in order to ascend from 1940 to 1945 in the U.S. Army from Private to Major.

1949 Angier Biddle Duke walked to the Foreign Service. From 1952 to 1953 he represented the Truman administration to the government of Óscar Osorio Hernández in El Salvador. By 36, he was then the youngest U.S. ambassador. From 1953 to 1961, Duke President of the International Rescue Committee and worked for The Pond in Hungary.

From 1960 to 1965 he was Chief of Protocol under the governments of John F. Kennedy and Johnson. From 1965 to 1967 he was ambassador of Johnson with Francisco Franco.

On the morning of January 17, 1966 failed an air tank maneuvers of a Boeing B- 52. One of the four bombs fell on Palomares into the Mediterranean. The propaganda and Tourism Minister Manuel Fraga trivialized the incident and invited the press to a bathroom with Biddle Duke in Palomares. From 1968 to 1969, Duke U.S. Ambassador to Denmark. From 1979 to 1981 Angier Biddle Duke was ambassador of the Carter administration at Sultan Hassan II in Morocco.

From 1992 to 1995, Duke Chairman of the Council of American Ambassadors of the stands Representation of Political Appointees in the USA. He was chairman of the Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, a PR organization of Contra.

He collided while rollerblading deadly with a motor vehicle. His correspondence is appreciated in the Duke University his family.