George Walbridge Perkins Jr.

George Walbridge Perkins Jr.
George Walbridge Perkins Jr.
3rd United States Permanent Representative to NATO
	In office; March 14, 1955 – October 12, 1957
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	John Chambers Hughes
Succeeded by	Warren Randolph Burgess
1st Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
	In office; August 1, 1949 – January 31, 1953
President	Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Livingston T. Merchant
Personal details
Born	May 2, 1895; Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died	January 11, 1960 (aged 64); Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican

George Walbridge Perkins II (May 2, 1895 – January 11, 1960) was an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1949 to 1953 and as United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 1955 to 1957.^[1]

Life and career

He was born on May 2, 1895, to George Walbridge Perkins. He graduated from Princeton in 1917, where he worked to abolish eating clubs. In 1921 he married Linn Merck, daughter of George W. Merck.^[2] In 1925 his son George Walbridge Perkins III (1925–2008) was born.^[3] He worked at Merck & Co., Inc. from 1927 to 1948.^[4] In 1950, he successfully persuaded Congress to assist Josip Broz Tito in his defiance of the Stalin regime. Perkins died of a heart attack in Manhattan on January 11, 1960.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "George Perkins, Ex-U.S. Aide, Dies. Assistant Secretary of State, 1949-53, Served NATO. Had Been Merck Official". New York Times. January 12, 1960. Retrieved 2014-07-30. George Walbridge Perkins of 1 East Sixty-sixth Street, former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, died Sunday at home of a heart attack.
^ "George W. Perkins Jr. to Wed Miss Merck" (PDF). New York Times. November 12, 1921. Retrieved 2014-07-30. Mr. and Mrs. George Merck of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., announce the engagement of their second daughter, Miss Linn Merck, to George W. Perkins Jr.
^ "George W. Perkins". New York Times. June 22, 2008. Retrieved 2014-07-30. George W. Perkins Jr. died peacefully at his home in Park City, Utah on June 12, 2008. He was born in 1925 at Wave Hill, his grandparents' house in Riverdale, New York. The son of George W. Perkins, the first U.S. Ambassador to N.A.T.O, and Linn Merck Perkins ...
^ Staff report (January 25, 1960). US news headlines. Time