John Langeloth Loeb Jr.

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John Langeloth Loeb Jr.
Terence A. Todman
Personal details
Born (1930-05-02) May 2, 1930 (age 93)
New York City, US
Political party
Nicholas Mears Loeb (with Harrsen)
Parent(s)John Langeloth Loeb Sr.
Frances Lehman Loeb
Alma materHarvard College,
Harvard Business School
Websiteambassadorloeb.com

John Langeloth Loeb Jr.

United States Ambassador to Denmark, and former Delegate to the United Nations. He is an advocate for religious freedom and separation of church and state
, having founded the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom in 2009. Loeb continues to serve as chairman of the George Washington Institute.

Early life and education

John Langeloth Loeb, Jr. was born on May 2, 1930, in

Jewish
background.

Loeb and his father share the middle name Langeloth in honor of family friend and businessman John Jacob Langeloth (1852–1914).[2] Loeb received his M.B.A. in 1954 from Harvard Business School.[3]

Government and public affairs

On July 30, 1981, President

Nelson A. Rockefeller on environmental matters (1967–1973) and chairman of New York State Council of Environmental Advisors (1970–1975).[6]

Loeb was Chairman of the Keep New York State Clean Program (1971-1975). He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1992 and an alternate delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1988 and 1992.[1]

Organization memberships

Loeb is one out of a group of one-hundred trustees who work for the

American-Scandinavian Foundation.[7] Loeb is chairman of the board of trustees of the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States (see Churchill Scholarship).[8] Loeb serves on the board of advisors of the Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical Center.[9]
From 1966 to 1994 Loeb served on the board of trustees of the Museum of the City of New York.

George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom

Loeb founded the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom (GWIRF) in 2009 with the goal of raising people' awareness about the roots of religious freedom and the separation of church and state in the United States and the importance of these principles.[10] Loeb serves as GWIRF's chairman.

Loeb Institute

In 2016, Loeb, through the John L. Loeb Jr. Foundation and the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom, donated $2.5 million to establish the John L. Loeb Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom at George Washington University.[11] The institute operates within the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.[12]

Awards and honors

On May 7, 1969, Loeb was made a Churchill Fellow of Westminster College in Fulton, MO, site of Winston Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech.

Upon leaving his ambassadorial post in 1983,

coat-of-arms
.

In 1992,

Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[14]

In 2010, he was invited to deliver the

Georgetown University Law School (1980) and was Person of the Year in 2005 at the Danish American Society.[16][17]

Personal life

Loeb has been married three times.[18] In 1960, he married his first wife, Nina Sundby, with whom he has a daughter.[18] His second wife was Meta Martindell Harrsen with whom he has a son, Nick Loeb. In 2012, Loeb married his third wife, Sharon J. Handler.[18]

Loeb financed the creation of the Loeb Visitors Center at the Touro Synagogue National Historic Site in Newport, Rhode Island.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b Pace, Eric (9 December 1996). "John L. Loeb Sr. Dies at 94; Investor and Philanthropist". The New York Times.
  2. OCLC 297811130
    .
  3. ^ "Loeb House - About Us - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu.
  4. ^ "Ronald Reagan: Nomination of John Langeloth Loeb, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Denmark". www.presidency.ucsb.edu.
  5. ^ "Reagan Appoints 10 As Delegates to U.N." The New York Times. 22 September 1983.
  6. ^ "Nominations & Appointments, June 10, 1983". www.reaganlibrary.gov.
  7. ^ "Board and Trustees". The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
  8. ^ "Winston Churchill Foundation of the USA". www.winstonchurchillfoundation.org.
  9. ^ "Viewpoint" (PDF). Columbia University Medical Center. 23 February 2022. p. 3.
  10. ProQuest 1629746283
    – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  11. ^ "Institute for Religious Freedom Will Move Education Programs to GW". gwtoday.gwu.edu. 17 January 2016.
  12. ^ "Loeb Institute The George Washington University". loeb.columbian.gwu.edu.
  13. ^ "U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Is Decorated by Government", New York Times, September 13, 1983.
  14. ^ "The Honorable John L. Loeb, Jr". DCF Donor Stories. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  15. ^ "Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. to Deliver 41st Annual Herbert H. Lehman Memorial Lecture at Lehman College on March 25 – CUNY Newswire". www1.cuny.edu.
  16. ^ "Danish American Society". das-ny.org. Archived from the original on August 2, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  17. ^ American Legacy Manhattan Society Report.
  18. ^ a b c Loeb website: Family retrieved July 16, 2013
  19. ^ "Loeb Visitor's Center at Touro Synagogue". Northeast Collaborative Architects. ncarchitects.com. Archived from the original on Feb 17, 2020. In 1998, a vision for a new building framing the western edge of Touro Synagogue's property was initiated by Ambassador John L. Loeb who is the founder of the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom. Loeb imagined an educational center that would house his collection of Colonial portraits and explain how RI championed religious liberty, tolerance, and separation of church and state in Colonial America.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Warren Demian Manshel
U.S. Ambassador to Denmark

1981–1983 		Succeeded by
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