Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.

Who was Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?

Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. was an American diplomat and statesman. He was the third Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East from 1954 to 1958. He was the director of the United Nations Children's Fund for fifteen years. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A lawyer, he was United States Ambassador to France 1952-1954, as well as U.S. United States Ambassador to Greece 1962-1965. Labouisse had been the principal United States Department of State official dealing with the implementation of the Marshall Plan.

He was born to Henry Richardson, Sr., and Frances Devereux Richardson, an Anglican of Louisiana. He married Elizabeth Scriven Clark on June 29, 1935. He married Ève Curie, nine years after Clark died, in 1954. The marriage with Ève has made him the son-in-law to Marie and Pierre Curie, Chemistry Nobel Prize winner. In 1965, he accepted on behalf of UNICEF the Nobel Prize for Peace and become one of the five Nobel Prize winners of the Curie family.

There is a prize in his honor established at Princeton University, his alma mater, which is given to a graduating senior each year.