Jacob D. Beam

Infobox US Ambassador
name=Jacob D. Beam


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ambassador_from=United States
country=Poland
term_start=1957
term_end=1961
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ambassador_from2=United States
country2=Czechoslovakia
term_start2=August 31, 1966
term_end2=March 5, 1969
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predecessor2=Outerbridge Horsey
successor2=Malcolm Toon
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ambassador_from3=United States
country3=the Soviet Union
term_start3=April 18, 1969
term_end3=January 24, 1973
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predecessor3=Llewellyn Thompson
successor3=Walter J. Stoessel, Jr.
birth_date=March 24, 1908
birth_place=Princeton, NJ
death_date=August 16, 1993
death_place=Rockville, MD
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Jacob Dyneley Beam (March 24 1908 – August 16 1993) was an American diplomat.

Beam was born in Princeton, New Jersey. His father was a German professor at Princeton University, and the younger Beam earned a bachelor's degree in 1929 from Princeton. He then joined the United States Foreign Service.

His first assignment was in Geneva, where he monitored the League of Nations and served as vice counsel in Geneva from 1931 to 1934. He then moved to Berlin and served as third secretary to the United States Embassy from 1934 to 1940. During World War II, he served as second secretary of the embassy in London, returning to Germany after the war.

Beam was counselor to the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia from 1949 to 1951 and to Yugoslavia from 1951 to 1952. He became United States Ambassador to Poland from 1957-61. From 1966 to 1969 he served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia then to the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1973.

Beam died in Rockville, Maryland of a stroke. Lambert, Bruce (August 18, 1993). Jacob D. Beam, Envoy to Soviets At Start of Detente, Is Dead at 85. "New York Times"] His son is journalist Alex Beam.

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External links

* [http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/beam.html Jacob D. Beam papers]
* [http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/beamjw.htm Oral History Interview with Jacob D. Beam] via Truman Library