Holsey Gates Handyside (August 23, 1927,

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

– June 29, 2016) was a career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador to

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

., Handyside was the great-great-grandson of Holsey Gates, the founder of Gates Mills, and namesake of the village of Gates Mills, Ohio. He grew up in

Bedford, Ohio Bedford is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States located to the east of Cleveland. The population was 13,074 at the 2010 census. It is an eastern first ring suburb of Cleveland. Geography Bedford is located at . It is a first ring subu ...

and attended

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(Class of 1945). He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps before going on to earn a bachelor's degree at

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

(1950, majored in French with a “secondary major” in political science). He studied for a year in

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on a Fulbright Scholarship and returned to complete the master's degree program at the

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of comprehensive course ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Handyside, Holsey G. 1927 births 2016 deaths People from Bedford, Ohio Western Reserve Academy alumni Amherst College alumni Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Ambassadors of the United States to Mauritania