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Eileen R. Donovan (born Boston, Massachusetts, died December 19, 1996 Spring Hill, Florida) was the American Ambassador to Barbados from 1969 to 1974, a consul in Barbados in 1960, and in 1962 became consul general.
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Donovan graduated from Boston Teachers College with a bachelor's degree in 1936 and a master's degree in education in 1937. She attended Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration (now the JFK School of Government) as a Foreign Service Institute Fellow and received a master's of public administration degree from Harvard.
She was a history teacher in the Boston Public Schoolsfrom 1938 to 1943.
During World War II, she served in the Women's Army Corps.In1945, she was the primary assistant to Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the Tokyo headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.