Leonard S. Unger Explained

Order:10th
Ambassador From:United States
Country:the Republic of China
Term Start:May 25, 1974
Term End:January 19, 1979
Successor:William Andreas Brown (Chief of mission)
Order2:8th
Ambassador From2:United States
Country2:Thailand
Term Start2:October 4, 1967
Term End2:November 19, 1973
President2:Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Order3:6th
Ambassador From3:United States
Country3:Laos
Term Start3:July 25, 1962
Term End3:December 1, 1964
President3:John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Birth Name:Leonard Seidman Unger
Birth Date:December 17, 1917
Birth Place:San Diego, California
Death Place:Sebastopol, California
Occupation:Diplomat

Leonard Seidman Unger (December 17, 1917 – June 3, 2010) was a diplomat and United States Ambassador to Laos (1962–64), Thailand (1967–73), and was the last US ambassador to the Republic of China on Taiwan (1974–79).[1]

Personal life

Unger was born in San Diego, California and graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1939.[2] He was the co-author of The Trieste negotiations and co-editor of Laos : beyond the revolution. After retiring from the foreign service, he taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.[3] He died on June 3, 2010, in Sebastopol, California.[4]

Diplomacy career

Unger was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations. He began his career in government as a part of the National Resources Planning Board.[5] He was also the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in the Johnson administration.[6] and the head of the Interdepartmental Vietnam Coordinating Committee, a committee set up by President Johnson to explore various 'use of force' options in the period before United States involvement in the Vietnam war escalated.[7] [8] Prior to his involvement in South-East and East Asia, Unger was the United States Political Advisor to the Free Territory of Trieste.[9]

Notes and References

  1. News: U. S. Envoy in Taiwan Defends Policy on Peking . The New York Times . June 23, 1974.
  2. News: Dr. Conant Twits Alumni 'Wailers'; A Couple Of Old Classmates Get Together . The New York Times . June 22, 1939.
  3. Web site: Tufts University: Students Counter Spies . John . Roosa . CIA at Tufts University . Winter 1985 . The National Reporter . 2011-08-01 . dead . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20021113133733/http%3A//www.cia%2Don%2Dcampus.org/tufts.edu/roosa.html . 2002-11-13 .
  4. Web site: State Magazine . December 2010. Scribd . U.S. Department of State .
  5. Web site: 10 May 1989 . The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR LEONARD UNGER . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240716020922/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Unger,%20Leonard.toc.pdf . 16 July 2024 . 5 August 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  6. News: Raids Will Go on, Rusk Reasserts; Shift by Reds Could Bring Halt, He Says in Detroit . The New York Times . subscription . April 20, 1965.
  7. News: Ex-Envoy to Laos Named To Special Vietnam Panel . subscription . The New York Times . January 9, 1965 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220412003407/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/01/09/archives/exenvoy-to-laos-named-to-special-vietnam-panel.html . Apr 12, 2022 .
  8. Book: Helsing, Jeffrey W.. Johnson's war/Johnson's great society: the guns and butter trap. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. 24.
  9. Web site: THE-CONSULATE-OF-THE-UNITED-STATES-OF-AMERICA-IN-TRIESTE. docstoc.com. August 1, 2011.

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