Gerald Drew | |
Office: | 2nd Inspector General of the Department of State |
President: | Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy |
Term Start: | November 13, 1960 |
Term End: | May 31, 1962 |
Predecessor: | Raymond Miller |
Successor: | Norris Haselton |
Office1: | United States Ambassador to Haiti |
President1: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start1: | May 15, 1957 |
Term End1: | July 16, 1960 |
Predecessor1: | Roy Davis |
Successor1: | Robert Newbegin |
Office2: | United States Ambassador to Bolivia |
President2: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start2: | December 8, 1954 |
Term End2: | April 6, 1957 |
Predecessor2: | Edward Sparks |
Successor2: | Philip Bonsal |
Office3: | 4th Director General of the Foreign Service |
President3: | Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start3: | March 30, 1952 |
Term End3: | October 18, 1954 |
Predecessor3: | Richard P. Butrick |
Successor3: | Raymond A. Hare |
Office4: | United States Envoy to Jordan |
President4: | Harry S. Truman |
Term Start4: | February 24, 1950 |
Term End4: | February 25, 1952 |
Predecessor4: | Wells Stabler (Acting) |
Successor4: | Joseph Green |
Birth Date: | 20 June 1903 |
Birth Place: | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Death Place: | Lewes, Delaware, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Education: | University of California, Berkeley (BA) |
Gerald Augustin Drew (June 20, 1903 - September 27, 1970) was a career Foreign Service Officer for the United States.
Born in San Francisco, California, Drew was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau. He served as U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; Envoy to Jordan, 1950–52; Ambassador to Bolivia, 1954–57; Ambassador to Haiti, 1957–60.[1] He was assigned to Haiti by the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration at the beginning of the regime of François Duvalier. He criticized the Duvalier government, and Duvalier requested his removal, but this was rejected by Christian Herter.[2]
He died at Lewes, Delaware and is buried at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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