Holsey Gates Handyside (August 23, 1927, Cleveland, Ohio – June 29, 2016)[1] was a career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador to Mauritania.,[2] [3]
Handyside was the great-great-grandson of Holsey Gates, the founder of Gates Mills, and namesake of the village of Gates Mills, Ohio.[4] He grew up in Bedford, Ohio and attended Western Reserve Academy (Class of 1945). He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps before going on to earn a bachelor's degree at Amherst College (1950, majored in French with a “secondary major” in political science). He studied for a year in Grenoble, France on a Fulbright Scholarship and returned to complete the master's degree program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.,[5]