Worked as an oil industry geologist in the late 1930s. Discovered the West Tepetate oil field in Lake Charles, Louisiana, which made him a millionaire.
[1] Loudoun Hospital Center. Father: (bank executive)
Wife: Cecilia DeGolyer McGhee (m. 1939, d. 2002)
Daughter: Marcia Carter
Daughter: Dorothy McGhee
Daughter: Bebek McGhee
Daughter: Valerie McGhee (d. 2000)
Son: Michael McGhee (d. 2003)
Son: George D. McGhee
University: BA Geology, University of Oklahoma (1933)
University: PhD, Queens College, Oxford University (1934-37)
US Ambassador at Large (1968-69)
US Ambassador to Germany (1963-68)
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961-63)
Counselor of the Department of State (1961)
Director of Policy Planning (1961)
US National Security Council Consultant (1961)
US Ambassador to Turkey (1952-53)
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs (1949-51)
War Production Board
Member of the Board of Mobil
Member of the Board of TWA
Member of the Board of Procter & Gamble
Council on Foreign Relations
Gore 2000
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Rhodes Scholarship (1934-37)
Legion of Merit
Cholecystectomy (26-Jan-1968)
Author of books:
Envoy to the Middle World (1969)
Diplomacy for the Future (1987)
At the Creation of a New Germany: From Adenauer to Brandt: An Ambassador's Account (1989)
The US-Turkish-Nato Middle East Connection: How the Truman Doctrine and Turkey's NATO entry contained the Soviets (1990)
Turkey and the Truman Doctrine, 1945-53: The United States Helps Turkey Join NATO and the West (1990)
International Community: A Goal for a New World Order (1992)
Life in Alanya: Turkish Delight (1992, memoir, with Cecilia McGhee)
Dance of the Billions: A Novel About Texas, Houston, and Oil (1993, novel)
On the Frontline in the Cold War: An Ambassador Reports (1997)
I Did It This Way: From Texas and Oil to Oxford, Diplomacy, and Corporate Boards (2001)
The Ambassador: True Diplomacy With Fictional Names, and Some Identified Fictional Deeds (2001)
Oxford Letters: The Transformation of a Texan as a Rhodes Scholar (2002)
