[2] Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
Father: Charles Bohlen (banker)
Mother: Celestine Eustis Bohlen (socialite)
Wife: Avis Howard Thayer (m. 1935, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Avis Bohlen (diplomat, b. 20-Apr-1940)
Son: Charles E. Bohlen, Jr. (lawyer, b. 11-Apr-1947)
Daughter: Celestine Ellen Bohlen (b. 17-Dec-1950)
High School: St. Paul's School, Concord, NH (expelled)
University: BA History, Harvard University (1927)
US Ambassador to France (1962-68)
US State Department Special Assistant to Secretary of State (1959-62?)
US Ambassador to the Philippines (1957-59)
US Ambassador to the USSR (1953-57)
Counselor of the Department of State (1951-53)
Counselor of the Department of State (1947-49)
US State Department Assistant to Secretary of State for White House liaison (1944-46)
US State Department Chief, Division of Eastern European Affairs (1944)
US State Department First Secretary, Moscow (1943-44)
US State Department Assistant Chief of European Affairs (1943)
US State Department Second Secretary, Tokyo (1940-41)
US State Department Vice Consul, Moscow (1934-39)
US State Department Vice Consul and Language Officer, Paris (1931-34)
US State Department Vice Consul, Prague (1929-31)
Porcellian Club
Expelled from School
Author of books:
The Transformation of American Foreign Policy (1969)
Witness to History, 1929-1969 (1973, memoir)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #4076e (39 cents, issued 30-May-2006, Distinguished American Diplomats)
AKA Charles Eustis Bohlen, Sr.