1. Charles Woodruff Yost was a career US Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
19 Facts About Charles Yost
1. 2.
Charles Yost attended the Hotchkiss School, where he was a member of the class of 1924 that included Roswell Gilpatric, Paul Nitze and Chapman Rose, before graduating from Princeton University in 1928.
3.
Charles Yost did postgraduate studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes International in Paris.
4.
Charles Yost was appointed assistant chief of special research in 1942, and was made assistant chief of the Division of Foreign Activity Correlation in 1943.
5.
Charles Yost attended the Dumbarton Oaks Conference from August to October 1944, when he worked on Chapters VI and VII of the United Nations Charter.
6.
Charles Yost then served at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in April 1945 as aide to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.
7.
In 1945, Charles Yost was reinstated in the Foreign Service, and later that year he served as political adviser to US Lieutenant General Raymond Albert Wheeler on the staff of Lord Louis Mountbatten in Kandy, Ceylon.
8.
Charles Yost then became charge d'affaires in Thailand during the short reign of Ananda Mahidol.
9.
Charles Yost was then sent as ambassador to Morocco in 1958.
10.
In 1964, Charles Yost was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest professional Foreign Service level, in recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained period.
11.
Charles Yost resigned in 1971 and returned to writing, at the Brookings Institution, and teaching at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
12.
Charles Yost wrote regular articles for The New York Times and the Washington Post.
13.
In 1974, Charles Yost was awarded the Foreign Service Cup by his fellow Foreign Service officers.
14.
In 1979, Charles Yost was co-chairman of Americans for SALT II, a group that lobbied the Senate for passage of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
15.
Charles Yost was a trustee of the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and director of the Aspen Institute for cultural exchanges with Iran.
16.
Charles Yost took part in the unofficial Dartmouth Conferences of United States and Soviet scholars.
17.
Charles Yost died of cancer on May 21,1981, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, at age 73.
18.
Charles Yost's papers are at Princeton University Library's Mudd Library in its Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
19.
Charles Yost's ancestor Brigadier General Nicholas Herkimer was a Revolutionary War hero.