Robert Ellsworth

Robert Fred Ellsworth ( born June 11, 1926 in Lawrence, Kansas; † May 9, 2011 in Encinitas, California ) was an American politician. Between 1961 and 1963 he represented the second and from 1963 to 1967 the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also from 1969 to 1971 the United States ambassador to NATO.

Career

Robert Ellsworth attended the common schools and studied at the University of Kansas after. Later he continued his education with a law degree from the University of Michigan. There he made his degree in 1949. During the Second World War, 1944-1946 Ellsworth was an officer in the U.S. Navy. During the Korean War, he returned again back in the Navy. In the years 1954 and 1955 was Ellsworth teacher at the University of Kansas School of Business. Since 1949, he practiced as a lawyer in Springfield (Massachusetts ). He was also from 1953 to 1954 member of the German Navy Committee.

Politically, Ellsworth member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1960 he was appointed as their candidate in the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1961 to the succession of Newell A. George. In the elections of 1962 he ran in the third constituency. Before that time, on January 3, 1963 Walter Lewis McVey from the Congress, which had until then represented this district. After a re-election in 1964 Ellsworth could remain until January 20, 1967 at the Congress.

In 1966 he abandoned a bid again. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the Senate elections this year. In 1968, he was a leading function in the campaign team of Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. The following year, he was special adviser to the now new President-elect Nixon. This appointed him U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Ellsworth served in this office from 1969 to 1971. Thereafter, he was for some years a partner in a New York law firm. Between 1974 and 1975 he was head of department in the Ministry of Defence and by January 1977 Deputy of December 1975, under President Gerald Ford Defence.

Ellsworth was still politically active. Since 1977 he has held a number of functions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 2003 he was a member of a commission to relations with China deals (US- China Economic Security Review Commission ). Robert Ellsworth lived in Comus (Maryland).

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