Livingston T. Merchant

Livingston T. Merchant

Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (November 23, 1903 – May 15, 1976) was a United States official and diplomat. He twice served as United States ambassador to Canada and was Under Secretary for Political Affairs from 1959 to 1961.

Merchant was educated at the Hotchkiss School and Princeton, where he was a member of the University Cottage Club and the Board of Trustees of Princeton University. He joined Scudder Stevens and Clark, an investment counselling firm. He became a general partner in 1930.^[1]

In the early 1950s, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (under Dean Rusk who served as Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs and Dean Acheson, then US Secretary of State) in the Truman administration.^[2]

In 1964 he co-authored the Merchant-Heeney Report which examined bilateral relations between Canada and the United States. He later served as U.S. executive director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development between 1965 and 1968.^[3]

References

1. • "Diplomat Livingston Merchant Dies". Washington Post. May 17, 1976.
2. • Department of State (1977), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Volume VI, Asia and the Pacific (two parts), Government Printing Office
3. • "Livingston Merchant: Oral history".

External links

• Livingston T. Merchant Papers at Seeley G. Mudd Library, Princeton University