Clifton R. Wharton AKA Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. Born: 11-May-1899 Birthplace: Baltimore, MD Died: 23-Apr-1983 Location of death: Phoenix, AZ Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Diplomat Nationality: United States Executive summary: First Black Career US Ambassador Military service: US Army (1918) Also first black Foreign Service Officer. Father: William B. Wharton Mother: Rosalind Griffin Wife: Harriette Banks (m. 1924, div., three sons, one daughter) Son: Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. (economist, b. 1926) Son: William B. Wharton Wife: Evangeline L. Spears (m. 1949)
Law School: LLB, Boston University (1920) Law School: LLM, Boston University (1923)
US Ambassador to Norway (1961-64) US Ambassador to Romania (1958-60) US State Department Consul General, Marseille, France (1953-58) US State Department Consul-General, Lisbon, Portugal (1950-53) US State Department Consul, Lisbon, Portugal (1949-50) US State Department Consul, Ponta Delgada, Azores (1945-49, American maritime delegation until Jul-1945) US State Department Consul, Antananarivo, Madagascar (1942-45) US State Department Consul and Second Secretary, Monrovia, Liberia (1936-38) US State Department Consul, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (1930-41) US State Department Vice Consul, Monrovia, Liberia (1925-29) US State Department Law clerk (1924-25) Massachusetts Bar Association (1920, practiced law in Boston until 1924)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #4076f (39 cents, issued 30-May-2006, Distinguished American Diplomats)
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