Charles Wallace Adair

Charles Wallace Adair Jr. ( born January 26, 1914 in Xenia, Ohio; † January 22, 2006 in Falls Church, Virginia) was an American bank employee and ambassador of the United States in Panama and Uruguay.

Life

He was an employee of Chase Manhattan Bank, and in the 1930s the diplomatic service in a. Before the Second World War Adair was in Mexico on a diplomatic post.

In 1943 he was deputy consul in Bombay. In Paris he was accredited as a commercial attaché. From September 1961 to September 1963 Adair was Deputy Secretary General of the OECD in Paris. He was then transferred to a diplomatic post to Buenos Aires. On May 6, 1965, he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the U.S. government in Panama on 13 May, 1965, he appealed to the government of Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez before his credentials.

1966 students threw him in Panama in protest a milk carton filled with red paint on the back. The U.S. Embassy in Panama left Adair on September 6, 1969 Adair was appointed on 15 September 1969 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Government of Richard Nixon in Uruguay.; he put his credentials on November 13th, 1969 before the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco. During his tenure, the Colorado government of Daniel A. Mitrione was advised on security issues. Adair left the embassy in Montevideo on September 28, 1972, was retired.

He lived in Stuart, Florida until 1996 he moved to Northern Virginia. His wife, Caroline Marshall Adair, died in 1996.