Porter McKeever; Ex-U.N. Aide, Biographer of Stevenson
Porter McKeever, a former State Department official, U.S. aide to the United Nations and biographer of Adlai E. Stevenson, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 76.
McKeever served for six years as director of information of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, resigning in 1952 in a dispute with the Truman Administration, which he accused of bypassing the organization.
McKeever worked on Stevenson’s presidential campaign in 1952. His “Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy” was published in 1989.
McKeever was named executive director of the Chicago Council of Foreign Relations after he left the State Department. In 1953, he became director of public information for the Ford Foundation.
In 1964, he became the first president of the United Nations Assn. of the United States of America, a research and educational organization concerned with U.S. participation in the United Nations.
In 1973, he joined the staff of John D. Rockefeller III as senior associate and vice president of the fund founded by Rockefeller.
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