Joseph A. Mendenhall
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Joseph Mendenhall | |
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Anthony D. Marshall | |
| Succeeded by | Fernando E. Rondon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 15, 1920 Calvert, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 2013 (aged 92) Green Valley, Arizona, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Delaware Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | career diplomat |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service | United States Army |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Joseph Abraham Mendenhall (January 15, 1920 – January 5, 2013) was a
Early life and education
Born in Calvert, Maryland, Mendenhall graduated from the University of Delaware in 1940. Mendenhall also studied at Harvard Law School. He then served in the United States Army during World War II and was commissioned captain. Mendenhall served in the United States Foreign Service and was stationed in Turkey, Iceland, Switzerland, South Vietnam, and worked at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Mendenhall also studied at the National War College in 1962 and 1963.[2][3]
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Background
In May, civil unrest broke out in South Vietnam following the
Expedition
A fact finding expedition dispatched by the
Later career
In January 1964, Mendenhall became director of the State Department's Vietnam Working Group and in July he became the director of the Office of Far Eastern Regional Affairs. In 1965, he was named director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Laos, then the second largest such agency in the world. In 1968, he returned to Washington as deputy director, and later head of the USAID Vietnam Bureau. Mendenhall served as American ambassador to Madagascar from 1972 to 1975.
References
- ^ Obituaries, April 2013, State Magazine 584:38
- ^ Hoover Institution archives-Papers of Joseph Abraham Mendenhall
- ^ 'The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History,' Volume I, Spencer C. Tucker-editor,' ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, Denver, Colorado, Oxford, England: 2011, Biographical Sketch of Joseph Abraham Mendenhall, pg. 738
- ^ "Viet Nam Was JFK's Greatest Failure", November 26, 1965, Herald-Journal
Bibliography
- Tucker, Spencer C. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. ISBN 1-57607-040-9.
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