Harlan Cleveland | |
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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 | New York City, New York, U.S. | January 19, 1918
Died | May 30, 2008 Sterling, Virginia, U.S. | (aged 90)
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]