John H. Morrow
Male, Deceased Person
1910 – 2000
Who was John H. Morrow?
John Howard Morrow was an American diplomat. In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him the first Ambassador to independent Guinea. He became the first representative of the United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. At the time, he was one of a small number of African American high-level diplomats. He was the brother of E. Frederic Morrow. His son, John H. Morrow, Jr., is a Professor of History at the University of Georgia.
Morrow was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
His memoir is entitled First American Ambassador to Guinea.
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