Findley Burns, Jr.
Deceased Person
1917 – 2003
Who was Findley Burns, Jr.?
Findley Burns, Jr. was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.
Graduate of Princeton University, Burns attended Harvard from 1950–51 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961-62. He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941. Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, Martinique, and Vienna. He later served as ambassador to Jordan from 1966 to 1968 and as ambassador to Ecuador from 1970 to 1973.
From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York, where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.
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- Born
- May 4, 1917
- Education
- Princeton University
- Harvard University
- Died
- Oct 14, 2003
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on July 23, 2013
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