James C. H. Bonbright

James Cowles Hart Bonbright (January 19, 1903 – February 10, 1993) was a career foreign service officer who served as the US Ambassador to Portugal (February 18, 1955 – November 27, 1958) and Sweden (January 9, 1959 – March 20, 1961).^[1]

Raised by his parents in Rochester, New York, he was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. When he graduated in 1921, he continued his education at Harvard University.^[2]

On April 9, 1933, he married Helen Sybil Rhodes, daughter of the Canadian Minister of Finance.^[3]

References

1. "James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903–1993)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved October 19, 2019.
2. Jessup, Peter (February 26, 1986). "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JAMES COWLES HART BONBRIGHT" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 21, 2024. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
3. "Marriages" (PDF). American Foreign Services Journal. X (7): 270. July 1933. Retrieved October 19, 2019.