Cavendish Wells Cannon (February 1, 1895 – October 7, 1962) was a long-time United States foreign service officer and diplomat.[1]

During World War II, Cavendish served as the Assistant Chief of the State Department's Division of Southern European Affairs.[2] For a time Cannon's work took him to Syria.[3]

He served as U.S. ambassador to Greece from 1953 to 1956 and ambassador to Morocco from 1956 to 1958. During the late 1940s Cannon served as ambassador to Yugoslavia[4] Among his fellow ambassadors was the Czechoslovak Ambassador Josef Korbel (father of Madeleine Albright). Cannon spoke in favor of Korbel's pro-democratic leanings when he was trying to gain asylum in the United States.[5] In 1948, he was the chair of the US delegation to the Danube River Conference of 1948.

Cannon was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Cavendish Wells Cannon". U. S. Department of State. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ the Problem of Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina during World War II Archived May 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Excerpt from journal of Eleanor Roosevelt, gwu.edu; accessed February 24, 2022.
  4. ↑ Jones, Howard. "A New Kind of War", America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) pg. 126
  5. ↑ Dobbs, Michael (March 15, 2000). Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Henry Holt and Company. pp. 130, 137. ISBN 978-0-8050-5660-0. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Church Member Nominated Ambassador to Finland", Ensign, March 1975 pg. 78.


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