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Clarence Douglas Dillon
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| In office January 21, 1961 – April 1, 1965 |
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| President | John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1965) |
| Preceded by | Robert Bernard Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Henry H. Fowler |
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| In office June 12, 1959 – January 4, 1961 |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Christian Herter |
| Succeeded by | Chester Bowles |
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| Born | January 17, 1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Phyllis Chess Ellsworth Susan Sage |
| Profession | Businessman, Diplomat |
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| Service/branch | United States Navy |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Clarence Douglas Dillon (Geneva, August 21, 1909 – New York City, New York, January 10, 2003) son of Clarence and Anne McEldin Douglass Dillon, was U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France (1953–1957) and 57th Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury (1961-1965). He also was a Member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Life
Dillon's family descended from his grandfather, Samuel Lapowski, a poor immigrant from Poland, who changed the family name from Lapowski to Dillon ("Samuel Dillon"). Dillon's mother, Anne Douglass, is descended from Grahams Lairds of Tamrawer Castle at Kilsyth, Stirling, Scotland.
Dillon began his education at Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst, Ocean County, New Jersey which he attended at the same time as the three Rockefeller brothers Nelson, Laurance, and John. He continued at the Groton School in Massachusetts, then at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1931.1
In 1938 be became Vice-President and Director of Dillon, Read & Co., co-founded by his father, Clarence Dillon. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. In 1946 he became chairman of Dillon, Read.
He entered government service in 1953, being appointed United States Ambassador to France by President Eisenhower. Following that appointment he became Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1958 before becoming Under Secretary of State the following year.2
Despite being a Republican, he was appointed Treasury Secretary by President Kennedy in 1961. He retained the position, serving under President Johnson until 1965. The Fifth Round of tariff negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which lasted from 1960 to 1962, was known as the "Dillon Round", after Dillon, who proposed its inception.
A close friend of John D. Rockefeller III, he was chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation from from 1972 to 1975. He also served alongside Rockefeller on the 1973 Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs. From 1978, Dillon served as President of the New York Metropolitan Museum, particularly building up its Chinese galleries. He personally donated $20 million to the museum and led a fundraising campaign that raised an additional $100 million.
He received the Medal of Freedom in 1989.
First marriage and issue
In Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 10 March 1931, Dillon married his first wife, the former Phyllis Chess Ellsworth (South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, 3 August 1910 – New York City, New York, 20 June 1982), daughter of John Chess Ellsworth (South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, 20 December 1874 – living 19573) and wife (m. Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 14 October 1903) Alice Frances Chalifoux (Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 9 August 1881 – New York City, New York, 27 January 1957), who bore him two daughters:
- Phyllis Ellsworth Douglas Dillon
- Joan Douglas Dillon (b. New York City, New York, 31 January 1935). She married firstly in Paris on 1 August 1953, divorced in Washoe County, Nevada, on 12 December 1955 and annulled in Rome on 22 June 1963 James Brady Moseley (New York City, New York, 22 May 1931 – Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 9 April 1998), son of Frederick S. Moseley, Jr. and wife Jane H. Brady, without issue. She married secondly at St. Edward's, in Sutton Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 March 1967, H.R.H. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, and had issue. She married thirdly in Isleboro, Maine, on 3 August 1978, Philippe-François-Armand-Marie, 7th duc de Mouchy, without issue.
Second marriage
In 1983 Dillon married his second wife, the former Susan Sage (born 1917).
References
- ^ Eric Pace (January 12, 2003). "C. Douglas Dillon Dies at 93; Was in Kennedy Cabinet", The New York Times.
- ^ "C. Douglas Dillon". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
- ^ Timothy Edward Howard, History of St Joseph County, Indiana, vol II (1907), pp. 886-887
See also
- List of U.S. political appointments that crossed party lines
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rockefeller family
- Metropolitan Museum
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| Preceded by James Clement Dunn |
U.S. Ambassador to France 1953–1957 |
Succeeded by Amory Houghton |
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| Preceded by Christian Herter |
Under Secretary of State 1959–1961 |
Succeeded by Chester Bowles |
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| Preceded by Robert B. Anderson |
United States Secretary of the Treasury 1961–1965 |
Succeeded by Henry H. Fowler |
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