Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.

United States ambassador

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1904

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1987

Profession: lawyer, jurist, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.

  • Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.
  • (February 11, 1904 – March 25, 1987) was an American diplomat and statesman.
  • He was the third Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 1958.
  • He was the director of the United Nations Children's Fund for years (1965–1979).
  • He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • A lawyer, he was United States Ambassador to France 1952–1954, as well as U.S.
  • United States Ambassador to Greece 1962–1965.
  • Labouisse had been the principal United States Department of State official dealing with the implementation of the Marshall Plan.He was born to Henry Richardson Labouisse Sr.
  • and Frances Devereux (Huger) Labouisse, a granddaughter of Leonidas Polk, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • He married Elizabeth Scriven Clark on June 29, 1935.
  • He married Ève Curie in 1954, nine years after Elizabeth died.
  • The marriage with Ève made him the son-in-law of Marie and Pierre Curie, the Nobel Prize winners.
  • In 1965, he accepted on behalf of UNICEF the Nobel Prize for Peace and became one of the five Nobel Prize winners of the Curie family.There is a prize in his honor established at Princeton University, his alma mater, which is given to a graduating senior each year.

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