Livingston T. Merchant

Livingston T. Merchant

Livingston Tallmadge Merchant (1903 - 1976) was an American 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. He joined Scudder Stevens and Clark, an investment counselling firm. He became a general partner in 1930. [*cite news
title=Diplomat Livingston Merchant Dies
date=May 17th, 1976
publisher=Washington Post]

In 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 Secretary of State) in the Truman administration. [*cite
author=Department of State
title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Volume VI, Asia and the Pacific (two parts)
date= 1977
publisher=Government Printing Office]

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. [*cite web
url=http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/firp.detail.documents.aspx?documentcode=OHI0032181-14268
title=Livingston Merchant: Oral history]

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