George C. McGhee

George Crews McGhee ( born March 10, 1912 in Waco, Texas, † July 4, 2005 in Leesburg, Virginia ) was a United States Ambassador.

Life

McGhee studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the University of Oklahoma and earned 1933 of the fraternity Phi Beta Kappa honor a conclusion. Mid-1930s, he studied with a Rhodes scholarship at Queen 's College, Oxford, visited during the holidays, the German Empire, learned the German language and in 1937 his doctorate. In 1939 he married Cecilia DeGolyer († 2002), who was elected in 1951 one of the ten best dressed women and six children brought into the world.

He was Erdölprospektor, found 1942 West Tepetate oil field in Lake Charles, a petroleum deposits in Louisiana and was dollar Millionär.Im Second World War he was in the Navy. , Under the command of Curtis E. LeMay In 1946, he joined the Foreign Service. In Turkey, he organized the support for the government of Themistocles Sophoulis in the Greek civil war.

As Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Cabinet Kennedy he instructed the end of December 1961 Alan G. Kirk, the Presides the " Belgo -American Development Corporation " on the voting behavior in the joint-stock company " Union Minière ".

In 1963 he accompanied Joan Crawford at the Berlinale. In 1969, he was transferred as a special envoy to retire.

McGhee 1989 donated his villa in Alanya Georgetown University as McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies.