1. Amory Houghton served as United States ambassador to France from 1957 to 1961 and as national president of the Boy Scouts of America.
16 Facts About Amory Houghton
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Amory Houghton was chairman of the board of Corning Glass Works.
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Amory Houghton was the only son of four children born to Adelaide Louise Houghton and Alanson B Houghton, who served as a United States representative from New York, as well as the US ambassador to Germany and Great Britain.
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Amory Houghton was educated at St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and graduated from Harvard University in 1921.
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Amory Houghton was then named chairman of the board again from 1964 to 1971.
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Amory Houghton served as a director of the National City Bank of New York, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and the Erie Railroad.
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Amory Houghton was on the Harvard Board of Overseers, was a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, and was a trustee of Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, New York.
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Amory Houghton began his career in government as a dollar-a-year man in 1941 when he was appointed assistant deputy director of the materials division in the Office of Production Management.
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In January 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt replaced the Office and Supply Priorities and Allocations Board with the War Production Board and Houghton was appointed deputy chief of the bureau of industry branches.
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Amory Houghton was accused of monopolistic behavior and this particular case reached the Supreme Court.
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Amory Houghton was forced to resign in 1943 due to antitrust problems with a Corning subsidiary.
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Amory Houghton presented his credentials on April 17,1957, and served until he left his post on January 19,1961, shortly before President Kennedy took office.
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Amory Houghton received the Silver Buffalo Award in 1945 and served as the national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1946 to 1951.
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Amory Houghton served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1949 to 1955.
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Amory Houghton was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, in 1955.
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Amory Houghton died at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 21,1981.