Robert A. Hurwitch | |
Office: | United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic |
President: | Richard Nixon Gerald ford Jimmy Carter |
Term Start: | September 5, 1973 |
Term End: | April 5, 1978 |
Predecessor: | Francis E. Meloy Jr. |
Successor: | Robert L. Yost |
Birth Date: | 15 October 1920 |
Birth Place: | Worcester, Massachusetts |
Death Place: | Scituate, Massachusetts |
Robert A. Hurwitch (October 15, 1920 – July 16, 1997) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1973 to 1978.[1] [2]
In 1979, Hurwitch pleaded guilty to "illegally using about $17,000 worth of embassy labor and supplies to build a swimming pool and prepare a retirement home for himself outside Santo Domingo." He was sentenced to two years' unsupervised probation.[3]
Hurwitch graduated from the University of Chicago. He died of lung cancer on July 16, 1997, in Scituate, Massachusetts at age 76.[4]