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John Nichol Irwin, II (December 31, 1913 – February 28, 2000) was a United States diplomat and attorney during the Cold War.[1] During World War II, he served in the Army in the Pacific as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.[2]
He was the last person to hold the position of Under Secretary of State when that was the U.S. State Department's second-ranking office (1970-1972). Then, he was the first person to hold the office that replaced Under Secretary: the "Deputy Secretary" of State (1972-1973). In both capacities, his superior was Secretary William P. Rogers. Irwin subsequently served as U.S. Ambassador to France. [1]
New York City, United States, American Civil War, Hawaii, Western United States
Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson, Massachusetts, John Adams, Boston
Cold War, Battle of Stalingrad, Nazi Germany, Battle of the Atlantic, Second Sino-Japanese War
Law, Common law, Intellectual property, France, Belgium
Eastern Bloc, Soviet Union, Vietnam War, Berlin Wall, United States
Yale University, Benjamin Franklin, United States Ambassador to France, Summit, New Jersey, New Canaan, Connecticut
United States, Richard Nixon, France, Gerald Ford, Berlin
United States Department of State, William Joseph Burns, Barack Obama, Washington, D.C., President of the United States
John Irwin (academic), John Irwin (admiral), John Irwin (baseball), John Irwin (boxer), John Irwin (British Army officer)
Barack Obama, United States Department of State, Washington, D.C., President of the United States, United States Deputy Secretary of State