Robert Ellsworth

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Robert Ellsworth
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7th United States Permanent Representative to NATO
In office
May 13, 1969 – June 30, 1971
PresidentRichard Nixon
Preceded byHarlan Cleveland
Succeeded byDavid M. Kennedy
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 3rd district
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967
Preceded byWalter Lewis McVey Jr.
Succeeded byLarry Winn
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd district
In office
January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963
Preceded byNewell A. George
Succeeded byWilliam H. Avery
Personal details
Born(1926-06-11)June 11, 1926
Lawrence, Kansas
DiedMay 9, 2011(2011-05-09) (aged 84)
Encinitas, California
Political partyRepublican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan Law School

Robert Fred Ellsworth (June 11, 1926 – May 9, 2011)[1] was an American legislator and diplomat. He served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (an ambassadorial level appointment) between 1969 and 1971. He had previously served three terms as a Republican Member of Congress from Kansas, from 1961 to 1967, and as an Assistant to the President during the presidency of Richard Nixon; under President Gerald Ford, he was Deputy Secretary of Defense.[2] Ellsworth also served as assistant to the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission.[3]

Ellsworth was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and was educated in the public schools of that city. He served in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. In 1945, he was graduated with a baccalaureate in engineering from the University of Kansas, where he had been a member of the Alpha Nu chapter of the Beta Theta Pi collegiate fraternity. He then studied law at the University of Michigan Law School, from which he was graduated in 1949; he practiced law in Lawrence, Kansas, and in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The retired ambassador was admitted to the Order of Saint John as a knight of honor in 1995.[4]

On November 9, 2010, Ellsworth provided commentary to KFMB regarding an unexplained missile launch off the coast of Los Angeles. He cautioned the news crew to wait for definitive answers from the military, then went on to speculate, "It could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine, an underwater submarine, to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we could do that."[5]

Ellsworth died in Encinitas, California: near the small city of Solana Beach, California, where he had founded and directed a research firm, Hamilton BioVentures.[6]


References[]

  1. ^ "Former Kansas Congressman Robert Fred Ellsworth dies at age 84".
  2. ^ "Former Kansas Congressman Robert Fred Ellsworth dies at age 84".
  3. ^ Kansans in the United States Congress
  4. ^ Verzeichnis der Mitglieder der Balley Brandenburg des Ritterlichen Ordens St. Johannis vom Spital zu Jerusalem; Berlin: 2008; page 94.
  5. ^ http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468118
  6. ^ "Robert Ellsworth, 84, Dies: Lawmaker and Nixon Aide", New York Times, May 12, 2011, page A26 (New York edition); Kansans in the United States Congress.

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Newell A. George 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 2nd congressional district
January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 		Succeeded by
William H. Avery
Preceded by
Walter L. McVey, Jr. 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Kansas's 3rd congressional district
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967 		Succeeded by
Larry Winn
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Kansas's delegation(s) to the 87th–89th United States Congress (ordered by seniority)
87th Senate: A. Schoeppel • F. Carlson • J. Pearson House: B. Avery • J. Breeding • B. Dole • B. Ellsworth • W. McVey II • G. Shriver
88th Senate: F. Carlson • J. Pearson House: B. Avery • B. Dole • B. Ellsworth • G. Shriver • J. Skubitz
89th Senate: F. Carlson • J. Pearson House: B. Dole • B. Ellsworth • G. Shriver • J. Skubitz • C. Mize
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