Anne Clark Martindell

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George C. Scott Jr.
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Jackson Martindell
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Anne Clark Martindell
3rd United States Ambassador to Samoa
In office
September 17, 1979 –May 7, 1981
Parent(s) William Clark
Marjory Bruce Blair Clark

Anne Clark Martindell (July 18, 1914 – June 11, 2008) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, as well as a diplomat who was United States Ambassador to New Zealand from 1979 to 1981. [1]

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Early life and family

Anne Clark was born in New York City on July 18, 1914, to William and Marjory Bruce ( née Blair) Clark, a daughter of the investment banker C. Ledyard Blair. Her younger brother was Blair Clark, a liberal journalist and activist. After her parents' divorce in 1947, her father remarried the journalist Sonia Tomara.

After attending boarding school in Maryland she enrolled at Smith College in 1932. After one year at Smith, she was forbidden from returning to campus by her father, a federal judge in Newark, who was later appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He forced her to withdraw from the college, fearing that an educated woman would be unmarriageable.

Much later in life she returned to Smith and earned a B.A. degree in 2002, at the age of 87. Smith also honored its oldest graduate with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. [2]

Marriages

Following her departure from Smith she returned home to Princeton, New Jersey, and married George Cole Scott Jr., a stockbroker, in 1934. They had three children together: Marjory Scott Luther, George C. Scott III and David C. Scott. The marriage ended in divorce after 13 years.

After her divorce, she met and later married Jackson Martindell, publisher of Marquis Who's Who, the company that annually produces Who's Who in America, in 1948. Together they had a son, Roger, [2] who was a member of the Princeton Borough Council. [3]

Career

Martindell was already in her 50s when she became active in Democratic politics. Her brother, Blair, was the national campaign director for Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 presidential campaign. [4] She attended the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to show support for McCarthy, as well as for the New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Robert B. Meyner, a friend of the family. After the convention, Meyner asked Martindell to become vice chair of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. At the end of her four-year appointment, local Democrats encouraged her to run for the New Jersey Senate in 1973 in a traditionally Republican district encompassing parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Morris counties. She managed to beat the incumbent state senator, William E. Schluter, in a year when Republicans battled the specter of the Watergate scandal and Democrats were buoyed by the landslide victory of Brendan Byrne as Governor of New Jersey. [5]

In her four years in the State Senate, Martindell worked primarily on women's issues, education and the environment. She was chair of the Education Committee, a member of the Appropriations Committee, chair of the Budget Revision Subcommittee for Higher Education, chair of the Joint State Library Committee, a member of the Senate Nursing Home Commission and chair of the Committee to Defeat Casino Gambling. [6] She was a delegate for Jimmy Carter at the 1976 Democratic National Convention and was an active campaigner for Carter in New Jersey. When he was elected president, she resigned from the New Jersey Senate in 1977 to take a series of federal appointments. She was succeeded in the Senate by Walter E. Foran, then serving in the New Jersey General Assembly, who won a special election to fill the remainder of Martindell's term as well as the general election for a full four-year term. [7]

Diplomatic career

Martindell was appointed to the Commission to Review Ambassadorial Appointments and later became director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, surveying natural disaster reconstruction efforts funded by USAID. Her work attracted the attention of the ambassadorship review board, which recommended her candidacy to Carter for the position of ambassador to New Zealand. She was nominated for the ambassadorship and held to post from 1979 to 1981, the first woman to be an ambassador to New Zealand. [6]

Martindell signed the Treaty of Tokehega on behalf of the United States, which delimited the maritime boundary between Tokelau and American Samoa. On her return from New Zealand, she continued to foster close relations between the two countries, organizing the United States–New Zealand Council in 1986 and being the council's first president.

Martindell's memoir, Never Too Late ( ISBN   9781933672502), was published in 2008. [8] She died on June 11, 2008, at the age of 93. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Women Ambassadors Series AMBASSADOR ANNE CLARK MARTINDELL" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 8 July 1986. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  2. 1 2 MacMillan, John (Spring 2000). "A Junior at 85". Smith Alumnae Quarterly. pp. 12–18, 20–21. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Princeton Borough Elected Officials". Borough of Princeton. Archived from the original on May 15, 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  4. 1 2 "Anne Martindell, 93, a pioneer in politics". The Times . Trenton, New Jersey. June 12, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2008.[ dead link ]
  5. ↑ "A Matron Defies Political Odds". The New York Times . October 21, 1973. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
    - Walter H. Waggoner (November 13, 1973). "Lame-Duck Republicans Wind Up Trenton Duties". The New York Times. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  6. 1 2 "Anne Martindell Papers". Princeton University Library. Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved March 11, 2008.
  7. ↑ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey. State of New Jersey. 1986. p. 233 – via Google Books. On Nov. 8, 1977, he [Foran] was elected to two Senate terms: the unexpired term of former Senator Anne C. Martindell, who had resigned to accept a federal appointment; and the full four-year term that began Jan. 10, 1978. On Nov. 21, 1977, Mr. Foran resigned from the Assembly, and was sworn as a senator.
  8. ↑ Martindell, Anne (2008). Never Too Late: A Memoir. Lawrenceville, New Jersey: Boxed Books. ISBN   9781933672502. OCLC   182735261.
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Preceded by New Jersey State Senator - District 14
January 1974 – November 1977		Succeeded by
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Preceded by United States Ambassador to New Zealand
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