| Ellsworth Bunker Born: 11-May-1894
Birthplace: Yonkers, NY
Died: 30-Sep-1984
Location of death: Dummerston, VT
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Dummerston Cemetery, Dummerston, VT
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Diplomat Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Ambassador to South Vietnam, 1967-73 Helped negotiate the Panama Canal treaty of 1977. Father: George R. Bunker (National Sugar Refining Company)
Mother: Jean Polhemus Cobb
Wife: Harriet Allen Butler (m. 24-Apr-1920, d.)
Wife: Caroline Clendening Laise (US Ambassador to Nepal; b. 14-Nov-1917, m. 3-Jan-1967)
University: BA, Yale University (1916)
Administrator: Chairman, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University
US Ambassador at Large (1973-78)
US Ambassador to South Vietnam (1967-73)
US Ambassador at Large (1966-67)
US Ambassador to the Organization of American States (1964-66)
US Ambassador at Large Yemen (1961-64)
US Ambassador to India (1957-61)
US Ambassador to Nepal (1957-59)
American Red Cross President (1954-56)
US Ambassador to Italy (1952-53)
US Ambassador to Argentina (1951-52)
National Sugar Refining Company President (1940-51)
National Sugar Refining Company (1916-40)
Member of the Board of National Sugar Refining Company (1927-51, as Chairman 1948-51)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Council on Foreign Relations
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1967)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Author of books:
The Bunker Papers: Reports to the President from Vietnam, 1967-73 (1990, ed. Douglas Pike)
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