Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Note: This list provides identification of persons for the years 1958–1960; all titles and positions are American unless otherwise noted. Where no dates are given, the person usually held the position throughout the period.
  • Adair, Charles W., Chief, Trade Agreements and Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until June 1958; Director, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, June 1958–November 1959; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Amory, Derick Heathcoat, see Heathcoat Amory, Derick
  • Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury
  • Areeda, Phillip, Special Assistant in the White House Office, 1958; thereafter Assistant Special Counsel to the President
  • Asakai, Koichiro, Japanese Ambassador to the United States
  • Baird, Julian B., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs
  • Beale, Wilson T. M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until February 1960; thereafter Minister for Economic Affairs at the Embassy in the United Kingdom
  • Becker, Loftus E., Legal Adviser of the Department of State until August 1959
  • Bell, John O., Special Assistant for Mutual Security Coordination in the Department of State from December 1958
  • Benson, Ezra Taft, Secretary of Agriculture
  • Birch, John A., Acting Chief, Trade Agreements and Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until January 1958; Assistant Chief of the Division, January–July 1958; Acting Chief, July-August 1958; thereafter Chief
  • Black, Eugene R., President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Boeschenstein, Harold, member, Executive Committee of the Business Advisory Committee, Department of Commerce
  • Boggs, Marion W., Director of the National Security Council Secretariat to July 1959; thereafter Deputy Executive Secretary
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from December 1959
  • Brand, Vance, Director, Export-Import Bank of Washington, until September 1959; thereafter Managing Director, Development Loan Fund
  • Brandt, Karl, member, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, 1959–1960
  • Brewster, Robert C., Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March–April 1958; Staff Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, April 1958–April 1959; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, April–June 1959; thereafter Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
  • Bridges, Styles, Republican Senator from New Hampshire
  • Butler, Frank P., Chief, Commercial Policy and Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from October 1959
  • Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Caccia, Harold, British Ambassador in the United States
  • Cameron, Turner C., Deputy Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, September 1958–June 1960
  • Cannon, Clarence, Democratic Congressman from Missouri
  • Chiperfield, Robert B., Republican Congressman from Illinois
  • Claxton, Philander P., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from March 1959
  • Coughran, Tom B., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1958
  • Cullen, Lieutenant Colonel Paul H., Secretary of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy until March 1960
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to June 1958
  • Davis, Richard H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from December 1959
  • de Gaulle, Charles, Prime Minister of France, June 1958–January 1959; thereafter President of France
  • Dillon, C Douglas., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Dirksen, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois
  • Draper, General William H., head of the President’s Committee To Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State to April 1959
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Eisenhower, Major John S. D., Assistant Staff Secretary to the President; promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in May 1960
  • Elrod, Warrick E., Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, 1958–1959
  • Finger, Seymour M., Senior Adviser on Economic and Social Affairs, United States Mission to the United Nations, from June 1959
  • Francis, Clarence, Special Consultant to the President
  • Frank, Isaiah, Deputy Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until January 1959; Director, January–April 1959; Acting Director, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, from September 1960
  • Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Galbreath, C. Edward, Secretary of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, March–September 1960
  • Gates, Thomas S., Jr., Secretary of the Navy to June 1959; Deputy Secretary of Defense, June 1959–December 1959; thereafter Secretary of Defense
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council to July 1959
  • Gleeck, Lewis E., Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, June 1958–October 1959
  • Gold, Ruth S., Special Adviser, Economic Development Division, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., Staff Secretary to the President
  • Gray, Gordon, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization to July 1958; thereafter Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Gruenther, General Alfred M., member, President’s Committee To Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program
  • Hadraba, Theodore J., Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from August 1959
  • Hager, Eric H., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from September 1959
  • Halleck, Charles A., Republican Congressman from Indiana
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Harlow, Bryce N., Administrative Assistant to the President until September 1958; thereafter Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations
  • Hartman, Arthur A., Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from May 1958
  • Hauge, Gabriel, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs, 1956–1958
  • Hayden, Carl, Democratic Senator from Arizona
  • Heathcoat Amory, Derick, British Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State to April 1959; thereafter Secretary of State
  • Hickenlooper, Bourke B., Republican Senator from Iowa; member of the U.S. delegation to the 13th regular session of the U.N. General Assembly
  • Hoegh, Leo A., Head of the Office of Civilian Defense until July 1958; thereafter Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
  • Humphrey, George, Secretary of the Treasury through July 1957
  • Irwin, John N., II, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from August 1958
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Democratic Senator from Texas; Senate Majority Leader
  • Johnson, Robert H., Director, National Security Council Planning Board Secretariat
  • Johnston, Eric, President of the Motion Picture Association of America
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, from July 1959
  • Kallis, Selma G., Trade Agreements and Treaties Division, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Kearns, Henry, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs until March 1960
  • Kennedy, John F., Democratic Senator from Massachusetts; President-elect from November 1960
  • Khrushchev, Nikita S., Chairman of the Council of Ministers and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kirlin, Florence K., Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
  • Knowland, William F., Republican Senator from California
  • Kotschnig, Walter M., Director, Office of International Economic and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until 1959
  • Leddy, John, Special Assistant, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until June 1958; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State
  • Lincoln, Colonel George A., member of the steering committee for the President’s Committee To Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until July 1960; thereafter Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative to the United Nations until September 1960
  • Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Lord of the Treasury
  • Macomber, William B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
  • Macy, Loring K., Director, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Department of Commerce
  • Mann, Thomas C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 1960
  • Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; member, U.S. delegation to the 13th regular session of the U.N. General Assembly
  • Martin, Edwin M., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, January–August 1960; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Martin, Joseph W., Republican Congressman from Massachusetts
  • Martin, William McChesney, Jr., Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
  • McCloy, John, member, President’s Committee To Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program
  • McCone, John A., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from July 1958
  • McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense to December 1959
  • McIntosh, Dempster, Managing Director of the Development Loan Fund, January 1958–June 1959
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from October 1958; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Metzger, Stanley D., Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs, Department of State, 1958–1959
  • Meyer, Armin H., Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, after September 1959
  • Minnich, L. Arthur, Assistant Staff Secretary to the President until August 1960
  • Monroney, A. S. Mike, Democratic Senator from Oklahoma
  • Morgan, Thomas E., Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Morse, True D., Under Secretary of Agriculture
  • Mueller, Frederick H., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic Affairs to November 1958; Under Secretary to August 1959; thereafter Secretary of Commerce
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs to August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Nunley, William T., United Nations Adviser, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Paarlberg, Don, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture to October 1958; thereafter Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator of Food for Peace
  • Passman, Otto E., Democratic Congressman from Louisiana
  • Persons, General Wilton B., Assistant to the President from September 1958
  • Phelan, Harry M., Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of International Affairs, Department of State, from June 1958
  • Phillips, Christopher H., Representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council
  • Quarles, Donald A., Deputy Secretary of Defense until May 1958
  • Rand, Joseph, Assistant Secretary of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy, March–September 1960; thereafter Secretary of the Council
  • Randall, Clarence B., Special Assistant to the President and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
  • Rayburn, Sam, Democratic Congressman from Texas; Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • Reid, Ralph W. E., Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget
  • Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State until January 1960
  • Riddleberger, James W., Director of the International Cooperation Administration from February 1959
  • Rogers, William P, Attorney General of the United States
  • Rountree, William M., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until August 1958; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until July 1959
  • Rubottom, Roy R., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs until August 1960
  • Russell, Richard B., Democratic Senator from Georgia
  • Ryss, Murray, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Saltonstall, Leverett, Republican Senator from Massachusetts
  • Sanderhoff, Lubert O., Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Saulnier, Raymond J., Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
  • Seaton, Fred A., Secretary of the Interior
  • Scribner, Fred C., Jr., Under Secretary of the Treasury
  • Smith, James H., Jr., Director of the International Cooperation Administration to January 1959
  • Southard, Frank A., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund
  • Spaak, Paul-Henri, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Sprague, Mansfield D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs to September 1958
  • Stans, Maurice H., Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget to March 1958; thereafter Director
  • Stimpson, Harry F., Jr., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State until July 1959; Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of State, July-September 1959
  • Straus, Ralph I., Special Consultant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Strauss, Lewis L., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission to June 1958; Secretary of Commerce, November 1958–June 1959
  • Szymczak, M. S., member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • Taber, John, Republican Congressman from New York
  • Upton, T. Graydon, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1958
  • Vettel, Thelma E., Acting Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Von Klemperer, Alfred H., Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury from December 1959
  • Voorhees, Tracy, Counsel, President’s Committee To Study the U.S. Military Assistance Program
  • Vorys, John M., Republican Representative from Ohio
  • Walker, Herman, Jr., Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from January 1960
  • Wallner, Woodruff, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from August 1959
  • Waugh, Samuel C., President of the Export-Import Bank of Washington
  • Weeks, Sinclair, Secretary of Commerce to November 1958
  • Weiss, Leonard, Deputy Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from September 1960
  • Westfall, Virginia C., Office of International Administration, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State, until February 1959; Acting Deputy Director of the Office, February 1959–April 1960; Deputy Director, April–June 1960; thereafter Acting Director
  • Whitman, Ann C., personal secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Whitney, John Hay, Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Williams, Walter, Under Secretary of Commerce
  • Willis, George H., Director, Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury
  • Willoughby, Woodbury, Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
  • Wilson, James M., Deputy Special Assistant for Mutual Security Coordination, Department of State, from March 1958
  • Wyndham White, Eric, Executive Secretary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade