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Harold F. Linder

American diplomat

Summary

American diplomat

Field	Value
name	Harold Francis Linder
birth_date
birth_place	Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
alma_mater	Columbia University
occupation	Ambassador
Businessman
children	2

Businessman Harold Francis Linder (September 13, 1900 – July 9, 1981) was president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968 and United States Ambassador to Canada from 1968 to 1969.

Biography

Harold F. Linder was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn on September 13, 1900, the son of May L. Linder. He was educated at New York Military Academy and at Columbia College, Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1921.

In the 1930s, Linder worked as an investment banker at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. From 1948 to 1955, he was president of the General American Investors Company.

Linder joined the United States Department of State in 1951 as a Deputy Assistant Secretary. President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower later named Linder Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. In 1955–56, he was a member of the Board of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. President John F. Kennedy named Linder president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in 1961.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Linder United States Ambassador to Canada; Ambassador Linder presented his credentials to the Canadian government on September 10, 1968, and served as ambassador until July 9, 1969.

Linder was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1969. There is an endowed chair at the Institute for Advanced Study named in Linder's honor.

Linder retired in 1972. He died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan's Upper East Side on June 22, 1981 at the age of 80.

References

(June 24, 1981). "Harold Linder Dies; Ran Banking Agency". New York Times.
Bauer, Yehuda. "Yehuda Bauer Interviews, United Jewish Appeal Oral History Project, and Herbert Katzki Oral History Project". [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]].
(June 24, 1981). "HAROLD LINDER DIES; RAN BANKING AGENCY". The New York Times.
"Alumni of Distinction". New York Military Academy.
(Fall 1975). "Columbia College Today".

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