John Scott Everton
American diplomat
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| Intro | American diplomat | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Diplomat | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 7 March 1908 | |
| Death | 23 January 2003 (aged 94 years) | |
| Star sign | Pisces |
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John Scott Everton (March 7, 1908 – January 23, 2003) was an American college president and diplomat.
He was educated at Colgate University Divinity School, Cambridge, and Yale. He worked on the research staff at the Ford Foundation.
He served as president of Kalamazoo College in 1949–53, and as U.S. Ambassador to Burma in 1961–63. In 1968–71, he was president of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, before it was incorporated into Boğaziçi University.
He volunteered his time as an interpreter at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in the early 1990s.
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| Preceded by William P. Snow | U.S. Ambassador to Burma 1961–1963 | Succeeded by Henry A. Byroade |