Ellsworth Bunker

Ellsworth Bunker (May 11, 1894 in Yonkers, New York, † September 27, 1984 in Brattleboro, Vermont ) was an American diplomat and two-time support of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Life

Training

Bunker studied law at Yale University. In 1951 he followed a request of his former fellow student and friend Dean Acheson and was U.S. ambassador to Argentina.

Career

After a year in Buenos Aires, he was appointed Ambassador to Italy, where he remained as a successor to James Clement Dunn until 1953. From 1954 to 1956 he was president of the American Red Cross. Further stations of his diplomatic career were India (1956-1957 and 1959-1961), where he participated in the expansion of Indo -US relations, and Nepal ( 1957-1959 ). In the summer of 1962, he was instrumental in the drafting of the New York Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia, where the territorial affiliation West New Guinea was clarified. In 1963 he was awarded for the first time with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his service as an ambassador. In 1965, he served as special envoy and U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the negotiations after the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, for which he was again awarded the 1967 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 1967 he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Saigon, where he quickly made a reputation as a " hawk" who supported the American intervention in the Vietnam War and welcomed the expansion of the war to neighboring countries. Bunkers six-year term in Saigon made ​​him more famous than all of its diplomatic missions before. After his dismissal in 1973 was Graham Martin new U.S. ambassador in Saigon. Bunker last diplomatic achievement was the elaboration of the Torrijos -Carter Treaties in 1977, a year later he retired and settled in Dummerston, Vermont.

In September 1984, ill bunker at the age of 90 years hard and was hospitalized. He died on 27 September at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and was buried at the cemetery in Dummerston.

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