Wymberley deRenne Coerr | |
Office: | United States Ambassador to Ecuador |
President: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Term Start: | March 24, 1965 |
Term End: | October 7, 1967 |
Predecessor: | Maurice M. Bernbaum |
Successor: | Edson O. Sessions |
Office1: | United States Ambassador to Uruguay |
President1: | John F. Kennedy |
Term Start1: | July 27, 1962 |
Term End1: | January 22, 1965 |
Predecessor1: | Edward J. Sparks |
Successor1: | Henry A. Hoyt |
Office2: | Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (acting) |
President2: | John F. Kennedy |
Term Start2: | April 20, 1961 |
Term End2: | July 17, 1961 |
Predecessor2: | Thomas C. Mann |
Successor2: | Robert F. Woodward |
Spouse: | Eleanor Coerr (m. 1965–1996) |
Death Date: | October 5, 1996 |
Death Place: | Ajijic, Mexico |
Wymberley deRenne Coerr (died October 5, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs in 1961, between the terms of Thomas C. Mann and Robert F. Woodward. He also served as Ambassador to Uruguay from 1962 to 1965 and Ambassador to Ecuador until 1967.[1] [2]
Coerr, an alumnus of Yale University and the Naval War College, died at a clinic in Ajijic, Mexico due to complications from Parkinson's Disease.[1]