Holsey Gates Handyside (August 23, 1927, Cleveland, Ohio – June 29, 2016)[1] was a career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador to Mauritania.,[2][3]

Handyside was the great-great-grandson of Holsey Gates, the founder of Gates Mills, and namesake of the village of Gates Mills, Ohio.[4] He grew up in Bedford, Ohio and attended Western Reserve Academy (Class of 1945). He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps before going on to earn a bachelor's degree at Amherst College (1950, majored in French with a “secondary major” in political science). He studied for a year in Grenoble, France on a Fulbright Scholarship and returned to complete the master's degree program at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.,[2][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Holsey Gates Handyside". Tributes.com. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "HOLSEY GATES HANDYSIDE". The Plain Dealer. July 10, 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Holsey Gates Handyside (1927–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "GATES, HOLSEY (HALSEY)". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "AMBASSADOR HOLSEY G. HANDYSIDE" (PDF). The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR HOLSEY G. HANDYSI. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
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