| 词条 | Edward B. Lawson |
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| name=Edward B. Lawson | image=Edward Lawson1954.jpg | imagesize = 150px | order= | ambassador_from=United States | country= Iceland | term_start= September 22, 1949 | term_end= May 29, 1954 | president= | predecessor = Richard P. Butrick | successor = John J. Muccio | ambassador_from2=United States | country2= Israel | term_start2= November 12, 1954 | term_end2= February 17, 1959 | president2= | predecessor2 = Monnett Bain Davis | successor2 = Ogden Rogers Reid |birth_name=Edward Burnett Lawson | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|9|26}} | birth_place = Newport, Tennessee | death_date ={{dda|1962|11|19|1895|9|26}} | death_place =Washington, D.C. | spouse=Jean McDonald Lawson | children= | party= | profession=Diplomat | religion= | serviceyears=1918–19 | branch=United States Army | rank= | unit= }} Edward Burnett Lawson (September 26, 1895 – November 19, 1962) was a US Ambassador to Israel (1954–1959) and Iceland (1949–54). He was a World War I veteran. BiographyLawson was born on September 26, 1895 in Newport, Tennessee. He graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in foreign service (1924) and later MS (1925). He fought in World War I and later joined the US State Department. Diplomatic careerAfter many posts such as Economic Counselor, Ankara, Turkey (1944–47), Commercial Attache, Managua, Nicaragua (1940–44), Commercial Attache, Prague, Czechoslovakia (1935–39), Trade Commissioner, Johannesburg, South Africa (1927–35), and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (1926–27), he served as ambassador to Iceland (1949–54) and the newly formed state of Israel.[1] He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Personnel in 1959–60. He was married to Jean McDonald Lawson and died of heart failure on November 19, 1962.[2] References1. ^US-Israel Ambassadors 2. ^{{cite news |title=Edward B. Lawson Dies at 67; Ambassador to Israel, 1954-59 |work=New York Times |date=November 20, 1962 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/11/20/archives/edward-b-lawson-dies-at-67-ambassador-to-israel-195459.html }} External links
| title=U.S. Ambassador to Iceland | before= Richard P. Butrick | after= John J. Muccio | years=1949–1954 }}{{succession box | title=U.S. Ambassador to Israel | before=Monnett Bain Davis | after=Ogden Rogers Reid | years=1954–1959 }}{{s-end}}{{US Ambassadors to Israel}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawson, Edward B.}}{{US-diplomat-stub}} 6 : Ambassadors of the United States to Israel|Ambassadors of the United States to Iceland|1895 births|1962 deaths|Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni|People from Newport, Tennessee |
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