Henry Labouisse; Ex-UNICEF Director
Henry Labouisse, 83, known as “grandfather to the world’s needy children” during his 14 years as head of the United Nations Children’s Fund, has died of cancer at Memorial Hospital in New York City.
Labouisse died Wednesday, according to UNICEF officials.
Labouisse, a former U.S. ambassador to Greece, was a lawyer in New York for 12 years before entering government service.
He was appointed executive director of UNICEF in 1965, the same year that the agency won the Nobel Peace Prize. He retired from the post in 1979.
Labouisse, widowed in 1945, married journalist and author Eve Curie, youngest daughter of French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.
He will be buried in New Orleans, where he was born.
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