Findley Burns Jr. Explained

Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in Baltimore, MD  - October 14, 2003, in Southern Pines, NC) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.

A graduate of Princeton University (1939), 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.[1]

Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941. Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna. He later served as ambassador to Jordan[2] (where he was stationed during the June 1967 Six-Day War), and he also served as an ambassador to Ecuador in 1970.[3] [4]

From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York,[5] where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: Findley Burns Jr. ’39 . Princeton Alumni Weekly . 21 January 2016.
  2. News: Nominated . The News and Observer . United Press International . 3 October 1967 . Raleigh, North Carolina . 3.
  3. News: Erlandson . Robert A . An Ambassador Receives His Education . The Baltimore Sun . 2 August 1970 . K5.
  4. Web site: 3 November 1988 . The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project FINDLEY BURNS JR., . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240621162554/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Burns,%20Findley%20Jr.toc.pdf . 21 June 2024 . 22 July 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  5. News: Burns, Jr. Findley . The Baltimore Sun . 16 October 2003.
  6. Web site: Findley Burns Obituary (2003) - Washington, DC - The Washington Post . Legacy.com.