William M. Rountree

William (Bill) Manning Rountree, Jr. (March 28, 1917 – November 3, 1995) was an American diplomat.

He was born in

lend-lease program.^[1]

In 1942 he transferred to the

Suez crisis in November 1956 and the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958. Rountree served as Ambassador to Pakistan (1959–62), Sudan (1962–65), South Africa (1965–70), and Brazil (1970–73). He retired in May 1973 and settled in Gainesville, Florida, where he died of cancer on November 3, 1995.^[2]

References

^ Johnson, Niel M. (September 20, 1989). "Oral History Interview with William M. Rountree". Harry S Truman Presidential Library. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
^ "W. M. Rountree, 78, A U.S. Ambassador From 1959 to 1973". New York Times. November 8, 1995. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

External links

PDF Finding Aid of the Papers of William M. Rountree, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
"William Manning Rountree (1917–1995)". Office of the Historian.

Government offices
Preceded by George V. Allen	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs August 30, 1956 – July 6, 1959	Succeeded by G. Lewis Jones
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by James M. Langley	United States Ambassador to Pakistan 1959–1962	Succeeded by Walter P. McConaughy
Preceded by James S. Moose, Jr.	United States Ambassador to Sudan 1962–1965	Succeeded by William H. Weathersby
Preceded by Joseph C. Satterthwaite	United States Ambassador to South Africa 1966–1970	Succeeded by John G. Hurd
Preceded by Charles Burke Elbrick	United States Ambassador to Brazil 1970–1973	Succeeded by John Hugh Crimmins

[1] Johnson, Niel M. (September 20, 1989). "Oral History Interview with William M. Rountree". Harry S Truman Presidential Library. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

[2] "W. M. Rountree, 78, A U.S. Ambassador From 1959 to 1973". New York Times. November 8, 1995. Retrieved September 13, 2015.

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