Jonathan Brewster Bingham

Jonathan Brewster Bingham ( born April 24, 1914 in New Haven, Connecticut; † July 3, 1986 in New York) was a politician in the United States.

Bingham attended the Groton School and then began a study at Yale University, where he was inducted into the fraternity Skull & Bones and 1936. He graduated from 1939. Thereafter he served until 1945 as an ordinary soldier of the United States Army and left this as a Captain ( Hauptmann ). Until 1946, he was then special assistant of the Deputy Secretary of State, later Deputy Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration ( 1951-1953 ). He was from 1955 to 1958 personal secretary to the Governor Averell Harriman in New York and from 1961 to 1962 a member of the United Nations Trust Committee. From 1965 to 1983 he represented the New York State in the Congress of the United States. He was also a member of the Americans for Democratic Action and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He was the son of Senator and Governor of the State of Connecticut, Hiram Bingham, and the great-grandson of the famous jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany. He married June Rossbach, the great-niece of former New York Governor Herbert Lehman.