Findley Burns Jr. (May 4, 1917, in

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, MD – October 14, 2003, in

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, NC) was an American

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, and

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. A graduate of

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(1939), Burns attended

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from 1950 to 1951 and was a student at the

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in Washington from 1961 to 1962. He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Burns entered the Foreign Service in 1941. Some of his early assignments were in Madrid, Brussels, Warsaw, London, and Vienna. He later served as ambassador to Jordan (where he was stationed during the June 1967

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), and he also served as an ambassador to Ecuador in 1970. From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the

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in New York, where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Findley Jr. 1917 births 2003 deaths Princeton University alumni Harvard University alumni Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador Ambassadors of the United States to Jordan American expatriates in Spain American expatriates in Belgium American expatriates in Poland American expatriates in France American expatriates in Austria United States Foreign Service personnel