Leonard Freel Woodcock was President of the United Auto Workers and the first US ambassador to China after being the last Chief of the US Liaison Office in Beijing.
12 Facts About Leonard Woodcock
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Leonard Woodcock was the son of Ernest Woodcock and Margaret Freel.
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Leonard Woodcock found work as a machine assembler in Detroit, and both he and his father became involved in the union movement.
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Leonard Woodcock was a champion of both minority and women's rights, pushing for comprehensive nondiscrimination rules and introducing the first union-wide contracted maternity leave in the United States.
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In 1977, Leonard Woodcock retired from the union and was named by President Jimmy Carter as head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing, which, in the absence of full diplomatic relations, served as the de facto US embassy in the People's Republic of China.
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Leonard Woodcock was the first ambassador to Mainland China since 1949, when Leighton Stuart served as ambassador to the Republic of China.
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Leonard Woodcock, working directly with me from the White House, negotiated successfully the terms for normalization of diplomatic relations.
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Leonard Woodcock married Loula Martin, with whom he had three children, in 1941.
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Leonard Woodcock was remarried in 1978, to Sharon Tuohy, a nurse working with the American delegation in China.
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Leonard Woodcock later taught political science at the University of Michigan, living in Ann Arbor with Sharon until his death on January 16,2001.
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The archival records of Woodcock can be found mostly at the Walter P Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs.
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Additional repositories with historical materials chronicling Leonard Woodcock are the Bentley Historical Library and the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.