Lincoln Gordon

Abraham Lincoln Gordon (born 1913) was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He studied at Oxford University and Harvard University.

He had a career in the administration and as a professor. He was Professor of International Economic Relations at Harvard University in the 1950s, before turning his attention to foreign affairs. He was Director of the Marshall Plan Mission and Minister for Economic Affairs and at the American embassy in London (1952-55). He served as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil (1961-66), where he played a major role for the support of the opposition against the government of President João Goulart and during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. [cite book
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title = The Military and the State in Latin America
publisher = University of California Press
date = 1987
location = Berkeley
pages = 138, 149
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isbn = 0520066642]

Afterwards he became Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1966-68) in Washington DC and waspresident of the Johns Hopkins University between 1967 and 1971. He was afterwards scholar at the Brookings Institution, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director at the Atlantic Council of the United States.

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title = United States Ambassador to Brazil
before = John M. Cabot
after = John W. Tuthill
years = 19 October 1961–25 February 1966succession box
title= President of the Johns Hopkins University
years= July 1967 – March 1971
before=Milton S. Eisenhower
after=Milton S. Eisenhower
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