Eugene V. McAuliffe

{{Short description|American Career Foreign Service Officer}}

File:Ford, Ambassador Designate Eugene V. McAuliffe (Hungary) - March 28, 1975(Gerald Ford Library)(1553009).pdf

Eugene Vincent McAuliffe (November 25, 1918 – February 9, 2000) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Hungary (1975–1976).{{cite web |title=Eugene Vincent McAuliffe (1918–2000) |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/mcauliffe-eugene-vincent |website=Office of the Historian |accessdate=7 February 2020}} He also served as Deputy Defense Secretary for International Security Affairs (May 6, 1976 – April 1, 1977) and deputy head of the American NATO Mission.{{cite book |last1=Borhi |first1=László |title=Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe |date=27 June 2016 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=9780253019479 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCBjDAAAQBAJ |accessdate=7 February 2020}}

McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1918.{{cite book |title=Nomination of Eugene V. McAuliffe: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, on Nomination of Eugene V. McAuliffe, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Vice Robert Ellsworth, Elevated, April 29, 1976 |date=1976 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |pages=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4WnT3xHnzH4C&dq=Eugene+V.+McAuliffe+1918&pg=PA2 |access-date=23 September 2022}} He served in the Army in World War II, then entered the Foreign Service.{{cite web |title=AMBASSADOR ROBERT M. BEECROFT |url=https://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Beecroft,%20Robert%20M.toc.pdf |website=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project |accessdate=7 February 2020}} He died in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on February 9, 2000, at the age of 81.{{cite news |title=Eugene V. McAuliffe obituary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110056982/chicago-tribune/ |access-date=23 September 2022 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=11 February 2000 |pages=216}}