Leo M Cherne was an American economist, public servant, and four-decade head of the International Rescue Committee.
10 Facts About Leo Cherne
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Leo M Cherne was born on September 8,1912, in The Bronx.
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Leo Cherne's father, Max Cherne, was a Romanian-Jewish compositor, who emigrated from Bessarabia to New York in 1904.
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In 1946, Leo Cherne joined the board of the International Rescue Committee.
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Leo Cherne went to Cuba in the late 1950s early 1960s, Cambodia in 1975, and Kenya in 1977.
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Leo Cherne served as chairman of the executive committee of Freedom House, established to advance the struggle for freedom at home and abroad.
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Leo Cherne advised nine presidents by serving as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1973 to 1991.
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Leo Cherne was a member of the US Select Committee for Western Hemisphere Immigration and the US Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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Leo Cherne died age 86 on January 12,1999, in New York.
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In 1989, Cherne received the S Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.