Findley Burns, Jr.

Findley Burns, Jr. (May 4, 1917 in Baltimore, MD – October 14, 2003 in Southern Pines, NC) was an American Foreign Service officer, Vice Consul, and Ambassador.

Graduate of Princeton University (1939), Burns attended Harvard from 1950–51 and was a student at the National War College in Washington from 1961-62. 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, Martinique, and Vienna. He later served as ambassador to Jordan from 1966 to 1968 (where he was stationed during the June 1967 Six-Day War) and as ambassador to Ecuador from 1970 to 1973.

From 1974 to 1980, he worked at the United Nations in New York, where he was director of the office of Technical Cooperation.

United States Ambassadors to Ecuador

Chargé d'Affaires	Robert B. McAfee James Chamberlayne Pickett (plenipotentiary) Van Brugh Livingston John Trumbull Van Alen Courtland Cushing

Minister Resident	Philo White Charles R. Buckalew Friedrich Hassaurek William Turner Coggeshall David Alexander Nunn E. Rumsey Wing Christian Wullweber

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Rowland B. Mahaney Edward Henry Strobel James D. Tillman Archibald J. Sampson Joseph W. J. Lee Williams C. Fox Evan E. Young Montgomery Schuler, Jr. Charles S. Hartman Gerhard Adolph Bading William Dawson Antonio C. Gonzalez Boaz Walton Long

Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Boaz Walton Long Robert M. Scotten John F. Simmons Paul C. Daniels Sheldon T. Mills Christian M. Ravndal Maurice M. Bernbaum Wymberley DeRenne Coerr Edson O. Sessions Findley Burns, Jr. Robert C. Brewster Richard J. Bloomfield Raymond E. Gonzalez Samuel Friedlander Hart Fernando Enrique Rondon Richard Newton Holwill Paul C. Lambert James F. Mack (a.i.) Peter F. Romero Leslie M. Alexander Gwen C. Clare Kristie Kenney Linda Jewell Heather M. Hodges Andrew Bowen (a.i.) Timothy Zúñiga-Brown (a.i.) Adam Namm

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