John A. Calhoun

John Archibald Calhoun (October 29, 1918 – January 21, 2000) was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1961 to 1963, as well as to Tunisia from 1969 to 1972.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Early life and military career, 1918–1946

John Archibald Calhoun was born on October 29, 1918, in Berkeley, Alameda County, California, the son of George Miller and Ellinor McKay (Miller) Calhoun. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1939 with a B.A. in International Relations and in 1940 from the Harvard University with a M.A. in history. He later joined the U.S Foreign Service in 1941, and became the U.S. Vice Consul in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1942. Later in that year, he was Vice Consul in Cairo, Egypt. From 1942 to 1944, he was posted in Tehran, Iran.

In 1944, Calhoun joined the

Calhoun retired in 1972, after 31 years in the Foreign Service, upon returning to San Francisco. He died on January 21, 2000, at the Marin General Hospital in San Rafael, California, of pneumonia and kidney failure.^[6][7] He was a resident of Mill Valley, California.

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