Charles Sheldon Whitehouse (November 5, 1921 – June 25, 2001) was an American career diplomat. He was United States Ambassador to Laos and the United States Ambassador to Thailand .
30-839: Whitehouse may refer to: People [ edit ] Charles S. Whitehouse (1921–2001), American diplomat Cornelius Whitehouse (1796–1883), English engineer and inventor E. Sheldon Whitehouse (1883–1965), American diplomat Elliott Whitehouse (born 1993), English footballer Eula Whitehouse (1892–1974), American botanist Frederick William Whitehouse (1900–1973), Australian geologist Jimmy Whitehouse (footballer, born 1924) (1924–2005), English footballer Mary Whitehouse (1910–2001), British Christian morality campaigner Morris H. Whitehouse (1878–1944), American architect Paul Whitehouse (born 1958), Welsh comedian and actor Paul Whitehouse (police officer) (born 1944) Sheldon Whitehouse (born 1955), American politician from
60-580: A British pornographic magazine first published in 1974 Whitehouse (band) , English power electronics band named after Mary Whitehouse Whitehouse Institute of Design , an Australian art and design school The Whitehouse (pub) , a Grade II Listed public house in Liverpool Whitehouse station (disambiguation) , stations of the name Web sites WhiteHouse.gov , official White House website launched in 1994 Whitehouse.com , former adult entertainment website Whitehouse.org ,
90-575: A Marine dive bomber pilot and saw combat in the Pacific theater , where he was awarded 7 Distinguished Flying Crosses and received 21 Air Medals . After his separation from the Marine Corps in 1946, he reentered Yale University, where he was a classmate of William F. Buckley . In 1946 he was tapped as a member of the Skull and Bones Society. Upon graduation from Yale in 1947, Whitehouse joined
120-500: A parody website that Chickenhead Productions created in 2001 See also [ edit ] White House , the residence of the president of the United States White House (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Whitehouse All pages with titles beginning with Whitehouse Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
150-943: A ward in Ipswich, England Whitehouse, Milton Keynes , a civil parish in Milton Keynes, England in the United States Whitehouse, a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida Whitehouse, Georgia , an unincorporated community Whitehouse, New Jersey , a village in Readington, New Jersey Whitehouse, Ohio , a village in Ohio Whitehouse, Texas , a city in Texas Other [ edit ] B.B. Whitehouse , organ manufacturer in Brisbane, Australia Whitehouse (magazine) ,
180-474: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles S. Whitehouse Whitehouse was born November 5, 1921, in Paris, France, the son of American parents Mary Crocker (née Alexander) and Sheldon Whitehouse (1883–1965). His father was a foreign service officer, and served as U.S. Minister to Guatemala, 1930–33, and to Colombia, 1933–34. Charles Whitehouse
210-826: The American Foreign Service Association and chairman of Lycée Rochambeau of Bethesda, Maryland. He later became chairman of the Piedmont Environmental Council in Warrenton, Virginia , and was instrumental in blocking the Disney Corporation 's efforts to build an amusement park and other developments on and near historic lands in Northern Virginia. In 1988, Whitehouse was called out of retirement by Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci to become
240-622: The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training . In September 1973, Whitehouse became ambassador to Laos , his first of two ambassadorships. In Laos he oversaw decreasing American military aid to Hmong who had been fighting a proxy war against Communist forces ( Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Army troops) in northern Laos. Eight months after he left Vientiane to take up his new post as ambassador to Thailand in Bangkok in April 1975,
270-669: The Central Intelligence Agency and worked in the Congo, Turkey, Belgium and Cambodia. He moved over to the State Department in 1956 to serve as assistant to the undersecretary for economic affairs, and in 1959 he became a regular foreign service officer. He later served as the State Department's Congo Desk officer, and also served on the staff of the department's Office of Personnel. He attended
300-767: The National War College , and graduated in 1966. Following a tour to the Republic of Guinea, 1969–1970, as deputy chief of mission, Whitehouse served two tours of duty in Vietnam . During his first tour, he was deputy for civil operations and rural development support. He returned to Washington in 1971 to become acting assistant secretary for East Asian affairs and returned to Vietnam in 1972 as deputy ambassador under Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker . Afterwards, he provided an oral history of his time in Vietnam to
330-723: The U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom . The Whitehouses had a home in Newport, Rhode Island, built by his father and known as "Eastbourne Lodge", an apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of New York City , and a large estate outside Tallahassee, Florida . Together, they were the parents of: Whitehouse died at the Newport Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island , on August 5, 1965. He
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#1732780039369360-471: The 2nd Episcopal Bishop of Illinois , and Evelina Harriet (née Bruen). Whitehouse was educated at Eton College , an English boarding school for boys in Eton , near Windsor . He graduated from Yale University in 1905. In 1908, Whitehouse entered the diplomatic service as a secretary to Whitelaw Reid , then the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom . From 1909 until 1911, he served as secretary to
390-802: The American legation in Caracas, Venezuela . In 1911, he was appointed second secretary in Paris, France , followed by service in Madrid , Athens , Stockholm and Saint Petersburg, Russia . In fact, Whitehouse acquired the touring car in which Alexander Kerensky fled St. Petersburg after he was overthrown as the head of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917 during the October Revolution . In 1919, Whitehouse
420-856: The Communists seized power and proclaimed the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Whitehouse's arrival in Bangkok coincided with a crisis in United States–Thai relations that followed the collapse of South Vietnam, and which was aggravated by the Marine recapture of the SS Mayagüez , an American ship that Cambodian Communist gunboats had seized in the Gulf of Thailand . It was also a time of serious political unrest in Thailand, which culminated in
450-583: The U.S. and other countries. In addition to his military decorations, Whitehouse received the State Department's Superior Honor Award , the Agency for International Development Distinguished Honor Award, and the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award. He was also a member of the French Legion of Honor. After his retirement from the foreign service in August 1978, Whitehouse served as president of
480-634: The age of 79 of cancer at his home near Marshall, Virginia . Whitehouse's first marriage to Molly Rand ended in divorce. From this marriage, he had two sons, Sheldon Whitehouse and Charles Whitehouse, and a daughter, Sarah Whitehouse Atkins. He married a second time, to Janet Ketchum Grayson. His son Sheldon was elected to the United States Senate from Rhode Island in 2006. Sheldon Whitehouse (diplomat) Edwin Sheldon Whitehouse (February 5, 1883 – August 5, 1965)
510-480: The bloody suppression of student demonstrations on October 6, 1976 , and a military coup that overthrew the elected government shortly thereafter. Whitehouse presided over the closing of the last American bases in Thailand in 1976, an action the Thais had requested. He also oversaw the creation and management of the resettlement camps in Thailand that helped refugees from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia resettle in
540-598: The first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities , with the assignment of strengthening cooperation among army , navy and ar force after a series of disagreements and botched operations. He served in this position until 1989. Whitehouse became a joint master of foxhounds of the Orange County Hunt in The Plains, Virginia, in 1990. He served in that capacity until his death. Whitehouse
570-530: The first women elected trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . In October 1920, Whitehouse was married to Mary Crocker Alexander (1895–1986), the daughter of Charles Beatty Alexander and Harriet ( née Crocker) Alexander. Mary was the granddaughter of railroad executive Charles Crocker . Mary's sister, Harriet Alexander, was married to Winthrop W. Aldrich , who was the CEO of Chase Bank and
600-401: The mayor. This was disproved when the Paris police stated that they assigned two plainclothes policemen to protect the mayor as he was a distinguished visitor. On December 16, 1929, he was appointed by Herbert Hoover as the U.S. Minister to Guatemala . He presented his credentials on March 21, 1930, and succeeding Arthur H. Geissler . He served in this role until July 23, 1933, when he
630-772: The state of Rhode Island Wildman Whitehouse (1816–1890), English surgeon and chief electrician for the transatlantic telegraph cable Places [ edit ] in the United Kingdom Whitehouse, Aberdeenshire , location of the Whitehouse railway station on the Alford Valley Railway in Aberdeenshire, Scotland Whitehouse, Argyll , a hamlet on the Kintyre peninsula of Argyll and Bute, Scotland Whitehouse, Ipswich ,
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690-532: Was a great-grandson of railroad executive Charles Crocker , and a grandson of Charles Beatty Alexander and Harriet Crocker. He was also a great-grandson of Henry John Whitehouse , Episcopal bishop of Illinois. He was raised in Europe and South America. In 1942, he interrupted his studies at Yale University to join the United States Marine Corps . He attended Navy flight school and became
720-606: Was a part of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris. From 1920 to 1921, he was chief of the Near Eastern division of the U.S. State Department . In the late 1920s, he was chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Paris . While in this role, in 1927, he officially presented James J. Walker , then Mayor of New York City , who later accused Whitehouse of hiring spies to "get something" on
750-561: Was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Minister to Guatemala and U.S. Minister to Colombia . Whitehouse was born on February 5, 1883, in New York City . He was one of five children born to William Fitzhugh Whitehouse (1842–1909), a New York lawyer, and Frances Sheldon (1852–1944), the niece of William B. Ogden , the first Mayor of Chicago . His brothers included Norman Ogden Whitehouse, Henry John Whitehouse and William Fitzhugh Whitehouse Jr. His sister, Lily Whitehouse,
780-506: Was buried at St. Mary's Church in Portsmouth, Rhode Island . Through his son Charles, he was the grandfather of Sheldon Whitehouse (b. 1955), the U.S. Senator from Rhode Island , Charles Whitehouse, and Sarah Whitehouse Atkins. Through his daughter Sylvia, he was the grandfather of George Blake, Lucy Blake, and Robert O. Blake, Jr. (b. 1957), a career diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia . He formerly served as
810-560: Was married to the Hon. Charles Coventry , a British Army officer who was the second son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry . Their son, and Whitehouse's nephew, was Francis Henry Coventry, 12th Earl of Coventry . Another sister was Frances Whitehouse, who married Baron Constantine Ramsay of Russia, a gentleman-in-waiting to the Czar Nicholas II of Russia , in 1903. His paternal grandparents were Henry John Whitehouse ,
840-472: Was succeeded by Matthew E. Hanna . On July 15, 1933, he was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt to replace Jefferson Caffery as the U.S. Minister to Colombia . He presented his credentials on December 6, 1933, and served until he left his post on December 8, 1934, when he was succeeded by William Dawson . In 1940 during World War II , Whitehouse flew to Europe to bring home his mother, who
870-620: Was tall, elegant and regal-looking, and in 1966 The Washington Post named him one of the "Ten Most Attractive Men in Washington." He was an excellent off-the-cuff speaker and raconteur, and he had a flair for the theatrical that continued into his retirement. He played George Washington in a documentary on the general, and once played the Marquis de Lafayette in a Fauquier County Historical Society ceremony commemorating Lafayette's 1825 visit to Warrenton, Virginia. He died June 25, 2001, at
900-927: Was then 88 years old, and who had been living in Paris at 48 Avenue Henri-Martin , for 20 years. She managed to travel through wartime Europe to Lisbon , Portugal , and flew home on the Dixie Clipper as what was said to be the oldest woman ever to make the trip by air. Whitehouse was a member of the Knickerbocker Club , the Brook Club , the Huguenot Society , and the Sons of the Revolution . In 1952, his wife Mary, along with Helen Rogers Reid (the wife of Ogden Mills Reid ) and Mary Cushing Astor (the wife of Vincent Astor ), became
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