John Howard Morrow | |
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United States Ambassador to Guinea | |
In office 1959–1961 | |
Appointed by | Dwight Eisenhower |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | William Attwood |
Personal details | |
Born | Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S. | February 5, 1910
Died | January 11, 2000 Fountain Valley, California, U.S. | (aged 89)
Political party | Republican |
Relations | E. Frederic Morrow (brother) |
Children | 2, including John H. Morrow Jr. |
Alma mater |
Rutgers University University of Pennsylvania |
John Howard Morrow Sr. (February 5, 1910 – January 11, 2000) [1] was an American diplomat. In 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him the first ambassador to independent Guinea. [2] He became the first representative of the United States in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. [3] At the time, he was one of a small number of African American high-level diplomats.
Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Morrow graduated from Rutgers University in 1931 and earned graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, a master's in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1952. [4]
He was the brother of E. Frederic Morrow, the first African-American to hold an executive position in the White House; and Nellie Morrow Parker, the first African-American public school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey. His son, John H. Morrow Jr., is a professor of history at the University of Georgia. His daughter is Jean Rowena. [1]
Morrow was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
His memoir is entitled First American Ambassador to Guinea (1959-1961). [5]
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