Douglas MacArthur II; Diplomat, Nephew of General
Douglas MacArthur II, 88, ambassador to four countries. The nephew and namesake of the famous five-star general, the diplomat joined the State Department’s Foreign Service in 1935. He served as ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria and in the early 1970s to Iran, where he escaped a kidnapping attempt. MacArthur was assistant secretary of state for congressional relations from 1965 to 1967. In 1966, he was given the service’s highest rank--career ambassador. He retired in 1972 at the end of his tenure in Iran. On Saturday in Washington after a stroke and a heart attack.
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