Herbert Salzman

{{Short description|American diplomat and businessman}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Herbert Salzman

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|office = 6th United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

|president = Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan

|term_start = June 8, 1977

|term_end = March 30, 1981

|predecessor = William C. Turner

|successor = Abraham Katz

|birth_name =

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|5|2}}

|birth_place = New York City, U.S.

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|12|23|1916|5|2}}

|death_place = New York City, U.S.

|party = Democratic

|education = Yale University (B.A.)

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Herbert Salzman (May 2, 1916 – December 23, 1990) was an American diplomat and businessman who served as the United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1977 to 1981.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/137373607/ |title=Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York on December 29, 1990 · Page 22 |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1990-12-29 |accessdate=2019-05-28}}

Salzman was born in Brooklyn, New York City to Russian immigrant parents.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/obituaries/herbert-salzman-is-dead-at-74-economics-adviser-to-4-presidents.html|title=Herbert Salzman Is Dead at 74; Economics Adviser to 4 Presidents|first=Wolfgang|last=Saxon|date=December 25, 1990|via=NYTimes.com}} He attended public schools there and, in 1934, the Hebrew Reali School of Haifa, Palestine. He graduated cum laude from Yale College in 1938, and studied at Columbia University in 1954.

President Lyndon Johnson made him assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1966.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-12-26-9004160660-story.html|title=HERBERT SALZMAN; SERVED U.S. IN GLOBAL ECONOMICS|date=December 26, 1990|website=Chicago Tribune}}

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter sent him to Paris as the U.S. representative to the OECD, a post he held until 1981. He concurrently served as ambassador to the International Energy Agency (IEA).{{Cite web |date=13 June 1989 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HERBERT SALZMAN |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Salzman-Herbert.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703175315/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Salzman-Herbert.pdf |archive-date=3 July 2024 |access-date=2 August 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}

Salzman died of leukemia on December 23, 1990, in New York City at age 74.{{cite web|author=Wolfgang Saxon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/25/obituaries/herbert-salzman-is-dead-at-74-economics-adviser-to-4-presidents.html |title=Herbert Salzman Is Dead at 74; Economics Adviser to 4 Presidents |work=The New York Times |date=1990-12-25 |accessdate=2019-05-28}}