John Scott Everton (March 7, 1908 – January 23, 2003) was an American

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and

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. He was educated at

Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theolog ...

Divinity School,

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, and

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

. He worked on the research staff at the

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. He served as president of

Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo College, also known as Kalamazoo, K College, KC or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833 by Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute, Kalamazoo is the oldest private college in ...

in 1949–53, and as U.S. Ambassador to Burma in 1961–63. In 1968–71, he was president of

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Istanbul, Turkey ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_in ...

, before it was incorporated into

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and t ...

. He volunteered his time as an interpreter at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in the early 1990s.

References

Presidents of Kalamazoo College

(U.S. State Department) * Social Security Death Index listing for JOHN S EVERTON * "U.S. Envoy to Burma Resigns," ''New York Times'', May 9, 1963 * "Ex-Envoy Heads College in Turkey," ''New York Times'', April 28, 1968 1908 births 2003 deaths Presidents of Kalamazoo College Ambassadors of the United States to Myanmar United States Foreign Service personnel 20th-century American academics {{US-diplomat-stub