Joined the Foreign Service in 1946. In 1975, organized the airlift of American personnel out of Saigon just prior to the fall of South Vietnam.
[1] Georgetown University Hospital. Wife: June Vereker Farquhar (m. 1944, d. 1986)
Son: Michael Farquhar Brown
University: BA, Wesleyan University (1942)
University: Columbia University (1941-42)
US State Department Special Envoy to Lebanon (1975)
US State Department Deputy Under Secretary for Management (1973-75)
US Ambassador to Jordan (1970-73)
US Ambassador to the Gambia (1968-70)
US Ambassador to Senegal (1967-70)
US State Department International Relations Office (1958-61)
US State Department Second Secretary-Consul, Paris (1955-58)
US State Department Foreign Affairs Office (1952-55)
US State Department Vice Consul, Ottawa, Canada (1948-52)
US State Department Vice Consul, Leopoldville, Belgian Congo (1946-48)
Council on Foreign Relations
Middle East Institute President (1975-86)
American Academy of Diplomacy Board member
American Institute for Islamic Affairs Board member