Findley Burns Jr.
Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in Baltimore, MD – October 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, NC[1]) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.
A graduate of Princeton University (1939),[2] Burns attended Harvard from 1950 to 1951 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961 to 1962. He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.[3]
Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941.[4] Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna.[2] He later served as ambassador to Jordan[5] (where he was stationed during the June 1967 Six-Day War), and he also served as an ambassador to Ecuador in 1970.[2][6]
From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York,[1] where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.[4]
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- 1917 births
- 2003 deaths
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador
- Ambassadors of the United States to Jordan
- American expatriates in Spain
- American expatriates in Belgium
- American expatriates in Poland
- American expatriates in France
- American expatriates in Austria
- United States Foreign Service personnel