John H. Bruins Second Lieutenant, United States Army Foreign Service Officer |
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on May 5, 1896, he received his A.B. degree from Hamilton College in 1919.
He married Dorothy Irene Dangremond, August 14, 1926. He worked as a financial
credit investigator from 1919-23 and entered the State Department Foreign
Service in 1923.
He served as Vice Counsel, Riga, latvia, 1924-26; Singapore, 1926-29; Counsel at Southhampton, 1929-31; Hamburg, 1931-33; Danzig, 1934; Prague, 1935-39; Hong Kong, 1939-41. Duty at the State Department, 1942-44. First Secretary in the United States Embassy, new government of Czechoslovakia in London, 1944-45; Counsellor, U.S. Embassy, Prague, 1946-48; Counsellor in U.S. Embassy, London, 1949-50. Served also in the U.S. Legation in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1951-52. Served as Second Lieutenant, United States Army Intelligence in World War I, 1918-19. Life fellow, American Geographic Society and a member of Lambda Chi Alpha. He died on December 26, 1954 and was buried
in Arlington National Cemetery.
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