Sol Linowitz

Sol Myron Linowitz (born 17 December 1913 in Trenton, New Jersey; † 18 March 2005 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer, diplomat and entrepreneur who in 1977 commissioned by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the handover of the Panama Canal negotiated on Panama and was honored in 1998 with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Life

Studies and career as CEO of Xerox Corporation

After schooling Linowitz studied at Hamilton College in Clinton, where he in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) acquired. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Cornell University in Ithaca, he joined in 1938 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) from. During his senior year, he was from 1937 to 1938 and editor of the Cornell Law Review and was also at this time a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic connection. After his subsequent attorney's approval, he worked for several years as a lawyer.

During the Second World War, he was from 1942 to 1944 in both the authority for pricing and 1942-1946 in the chief legal adviser to the Navy Department (U.S. Department of the Navy ) in Washington, DC office, working. At the same time he served from 1944 to 1946 his military service in the U.S. Navy.

In 1943 he also appeared as a manager in the technology and services company Xerox, where he was most recently from 1960 to 1966 Chairman of the Board. During this time was 1961, the company's IPO on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) and the renaming of the previous Haloid Company Inc. Xerox Corporation on April 18, 1961.

Ambassadors and support of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

On November 15, 1966, he was appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson as the successor of Ellsworth Bunker for Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS ) and has held this post until his replacement by Joseph J. Jova on 15 July 1969. At the same time he began his involvement as a trustee of various educational institutions and was 1966-1995 trustee of Cornell University. In addition, he was for a time also a Trustee of Hamilton College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music ( ESM).

1977 appointed him U.S. President Jimmy Carter to the negotiator in contract negotiations on the return of the Panama Canal to Panama. On September 7, 1977, was signed by Carter and Omar Torrijos of, the President of Panama, named Torrijos -Carter Treaties. These provided for a transfer of the canal to Panama until 1 January 2000. The transfer was finally completed on 31 December 1999.

After him President Carter in 1979 appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Middle East. This office he retained until the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan on January 20, 1981. Linowitz, who was from 1984 to 1989 chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy, is also involved in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Jewish Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations.

1998 Sol Linowitz was honored by U.S. President Bill Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is adjacent to the peer Golden Congressional Medal of Honor one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States of America.

Publications

  • International business -government relations, co-authors Charles Habib Malik and Daniel Parker, Washington, DC 1970
  • This troubled urban world, Claremont 1974
  • World Hunger, a challenge to American policy, New York City 1980, ISBN 0871-24065-3
  • The making of a public one. A memoir, Boston, 1985, ISBN 0316-52689-4

External links and sources

  • Sol Linowitz in the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Publications ( Open Library )
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh 2002, pp. 920, ISBN 0550-10051-2
  • Ambassador of the United States
  • Lawyer ( United States)
  • Manager
  • Carrier of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Americans
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 2005
  • Man
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