Harold F. Linder
{{short description|American diplomat}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Harold Francis Linder
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|09|13}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|07|09|1900|09|13}}
| death_place = Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
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| alma_mater = Columbia University
| occupation = Ambassador
Businessman
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| children = 2
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{{Infobox officeholder
| office = 2nd Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
| term_start = 1952
| term_end = 1953
| preceded = Willard Thorp
| succeeded = Samuel C. Waugh
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Harold Francis Linder (September 13, 1900 – July 9, 1981){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/24/obituaries/harold-linder-dies-ran-banking-agency.html|title=Harold Linder Dies; Ran Banking Agency|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 24, 1981|access-date=August 4, 2015}} was president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1961 to 1968 and United States Ambassador to Canada from 1968 to 1969.
Biography
Harold F. Linder was born to a Jewish family{{cite web|first=Yehuda|last=Bauer|author-link=|work=JDC Oral History Collection, 1961–2017|title=Yehuda Bauer Interviews, United Jewish Appeal Oral History Project, and Herbert Katzki Oral History Project|publisher=American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee|date=|url=https://archives.jdc.org/our-collections/finding-aids/oral-history-collection/1961-2017/united-jewish-appeal-oral-history-project-1974-1992/|access-date=|archive-date=October 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010080233/https://archives.jdc.org/our-collections/finding-aids/oral-history-collection/1961-2017/united-jewish-appeal-oral-history-project-1974-1992/|url-status=dead}} in Brooklyn on September 13, 1900, the son of May L. Linder.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/24/obituaries/harold-linder-dies-ran-banking-agency.html|title=HAROLD LINDER DIES; RAN BANKING AGENCY|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 24, 1981}} He was educated at New York Military Academy{{cite web|url=http://www.nyma.org/page.cfm?p=318|title=Alumni of Distinction|publisher=New York Military Academy|access-date=August 4, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123005325/http://www.nyma.org/page.cfm?p=318|archive-date=January 23, 2016}} and at Columbia College, Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1921.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=Fall 1975|title=Columbia College Today|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_019|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-07-18|website=Internet Archive|page=56|language=en}}
In the 1930s, Linder worked as an investment banker at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. From 1948 to 1955, he was president of the General American Investors Company.
Linder joined the United States Department of State in 1951 as a Deputy Assistant Secretary. President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower later named Linder Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. In 1955–56, he was a member of the Board of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. President John F. Kennedy named Linder president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States in 1961.
In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson appointed Linder United States Ambassador to Canada; Ambassador Linder presented his credentials to the Canadian government on September 10, 1968, and served as ambassador until July 9, 1969.
Linder was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1969. There is an endowed chair at the Institute for Advanced Study named in Linder's honor.
Linder retired in 1972. He died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan's Upper East Side on June 22, 1981 at the age of 80.
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|before=William Walton Butterworth
|title=United States Ambassador to Canada
|after=Adolph W. Schmidt
|years=September 10, 1968 – July 9, 1969
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Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Canada
Category:Bankers from Brooklyn
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:New York Military Academy alumni
Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II