Office: | 2nd United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Term Start: | June 12, 1953 |
Term End: | April 20, 1955 |
Preceded: | William Henry Draper Jr. |
Succeeded: | George Walbridge Perkins Jr. |
Birth Date: | 1891 |
Education: | Princeton University |
John Chambers Hughes (1891–1971), was an American diplomat and the United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 12 June 1953 until 20 April 1955.[1] A graduate of Princeton University, he was a close friend of CIA Director Allen Dulles. Hughes, a Wall Street financier, was the head of the New York bureau of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[2]