Walworth Barbour

Walworth Barbour ( born June 4, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † 21 July 1982 in Gloucester, Massachusetts) was an American diplomat. It was from June 12, 1961 to January 19, 1973 the United States ambassador in Israel.

Barbour went to Phillips Exeter Academy to school and studied at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts. He entered the Foreign Service. His first position abroad in 1932 the post of Vice - Consul in Naples. Further stations were Greece, Iraq and Bulgaria. During the Second World War, he was deployed as officer at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt. In 1949 he was appointed as an advisor to the Embassy in Moscow.

In 1952 he made ​​a career in the U.S. State Department. He first directed the Department of East European issues and was then Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe. In 1956 he was chargé d'affaires at the Embassy to the United Kingdom in London.

In 1961 he was appointed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy as the successor of Ogden R. Reid as ambassador to Israel. During his tenure, the Six Day War and the discovery of the Israeli nuclear program at Dimona fell. He went in 1973 in board, when he was recalled from Israel. His successor was Kenneth Keating.

For his many years of service in the diplomatic corps Barbour was appointed Career Ambassador in 1969 and received the 1971 Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State.

Barbour was never married, embassy receptions, he tried to put so that his sister Ellen Barbour could be as his official companion to guest.

The American International School in Even Yehuda, in the Plain of Sharon, is named after him.

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