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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a520-14a
Ellsworth Bunker
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Audio/Video Archives Collection, Photograph No. a520-14a

Ellsworth Bunker

United States, 1894 - 1984
United States Ambassador to Argentina (1951-1952)
United States Ambassador to Italy (1952-1953)
United States Ambassador to India (1956-1961)
United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (1964-1966)
United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (1967-1973)

Under the Truman administration, Ellsworth Bunker served as the ambassador to Argentina (1951 -1952) and Italy (1952-1953). Afterwards, President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Bunker as ambassador to India (1956-1961), and President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him as ambassador to South Vietnam (1967-1973). Bunker received the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction twice, first from John F. Kennedy in 1963 and again from Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. Married to Assistant Secretary of State, Carol Laise.
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