Harlan Cleveland | |
|---|---|
 Harlan Cleveland in DC, 2006 | |
| 6th United States Permanent Representative to NATO | |
| In office September 1, 1965 – June 11, 1969 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Thomas K. Finletter |
| Succeeded by | Robert Ellsworth |
| 6th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs | |
| In office February 23, 1961 – September 18, 1965 | |
| President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | Francis O. Wilcox |
| Succeeded by | Joseph J. Sisco |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 19, 1918 New York City, New York |
| Died | May 30, 2008 (aged 90) Sterling, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American diplomat, educator, and author.[1] He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965.[2] He was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Cleveland also served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.[3]
He was born in New York City to Stanley Matthews Cleveland and Marian Van Buren. His siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland, an economist, Anne Cleveland White, an artist, and Stanley Cleveland, a diplomat. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1930s. He was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- ^ Hevesi, Dennis (13 June 2008). "Harlan Cleveland, Diplomat and Scholar, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HARLAN CLEVELAND" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 3 February 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ Nishimoto, Warren; Cleveland, Harlan (1996). "Interview with Harlan Cleveland" (PDF). 25-1-1-96, 25-2-1-96, 25-3-2-96, 25-4-2-96, 25-5-3-96, 25-6-4-96, 25-7-4-96, 25-8-5-96, 25-9-5-96, 25-10-6-26, 25-11-7-96, 25-12-7-96, 25-13-8-96, 25-14-8-96. hdl:10125/30683. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.