Frank Owen Gehry,,FAIA is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. A number of his buildings,including his private residence in Santa Monica,California,have become world-renowned attractions.
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to and in between these cabinet-level positions,he was a general in the United States Army,serving first as the vice chief of staff of the Army and then as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. In 1973,Haig became the youngest four-star general in the U.S. Army's history.
Donald Louis Evans is an American businessman. He was the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Bush and sworn into office on January 20,2001. On November 9,2004,the White House announced that Evans intended to resign by the end of January 2005.
John Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment,he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009),and the first ever Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007).
Michael Kantor is an American attorney who served as the United States Trade Representative from 1993 to 1996 and United States Secretary of Commerce in 1996 and 1997.
Clayland Boyden Gray is an American lawyer and former diplomat who served as White House Counsel from 1989 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He is a founding partner of the Washington,D.C.-based law firm Boyden Gray &Associates LLP.
William Earl Kennard is an American attorney and former government official. Kennard served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton,and was the first African American to lead the agency. In 2009,Kennard was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador to the European Union,serving until 2013.
Gary Faye Locke is an American politician,attorney,and former diplomat from the state of Washington. Locke served as the 21st governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005,where he was the first Chinese-American governor as well as the first Asian American governor in the continental U.S. During the Obama administration,Locke served as Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011,and as Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014,where he was the first Chinese American to serve in the role.
Edwin McCammon Martin was an American economist and diplomat. He worked for the United States government from 1935 to 1975,first as an economist,then on the mobilization of the U.S. economy for World War II and finally as a diplomat both domestically and abroad.
Sung Yong Kim is an American diplomat of Korean descent serving as the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy since 2021,and previously from 2014 to 2016. He has also served as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from January to June 2021.
Derek Shearer is an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Finland. He is currently employed by Occidental College,directing the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs and serving as a Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs.
A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1971 to succeed U Thant,who was stepping down after two full terms. Three candidates received enough votes in the Security Council to be selected Secretary-General:Carlos Ortiz de Rozas of Argentina,Kurt Waldheim of Austria,and Max Jakobson of Finland. However,all of the frontrunners were vetoed in the first two rounds of voting. In the third round,Waldheim accidentally escaped a triple-veto when three permanent members failed to coordinate their votes and all abstained. As a result,Kurt Waldheim was selected Secretary-General of the United Nations for a term starting 1 January 1972.
John Giffen Weinmann served as United States Ambassador to Finland and later as the Chief of Protocol of the United States under President George H. W. Bush. He was appointed Ambassador to Finland on October 10,1989 and presented his credentials on November 10 of that year. His tenure in Finland concluded on August 29,1991 after being nominated to be Chief of Protocol on July 11,1991. He succeeded Rockwell A. Schnabel and was succeeded by John Hubert Kelly.
Victor John Krehbiel (1905–1997) was the head of the Republican Party of California,and served as the American ambassador to Finland (1973–1975),a position he was accused of buying with campaign contributions. He was appointed to other political positions by both the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations.
John Roger Davis Jr. is a retired American diplomat. From 1988 to 1990,he served as the United States Ambassador to Poland,where he helped guide Solidarity,and Poland,in its quest for free elections. Later,from 1992 to 1994,he served as the United States Ambassador to Romania.
Richard Goodwin Capen Jr. is an American businessman and former United States Ambassador to Spain from 1992 to 1993.
Hendrik Jan Jurriaan (Henne) Schuwer is a Dutch career diplomat who served as the ambassador to Belgium and to the United States.
Relations between Czechoslovakia and the United States refer to two periods in Czechoslovakia's history. The first being the establishment of Czechoslovakia after its declaration of independence in 1918 from Austria-Hungary initiated by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points following World War I. The second period being the communist era from 1948 when relations were strained,until 1992 when Czechoslovakia split forming the independent nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a result of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
