Marshall Green was an American diplomat whose career focused on East Asia.
15 Facts About Marshall Green
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Marshall Green was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts on January 27,1916.
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Marshall Green was educated at Groton School, graduating in 1935, and then at Yale University, graduating in 1939.
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Shortly before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Marshall Green returned to the United States to study for the exam to join the United States Foreign Service.
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Marshall Green's first posting was as Third Secretary at the Embassy of the United States in Wellington.
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Marshall Green was then appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the United States in Seoul.
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Marshall Green was the senior American diplomat charge d'affaires in South Korea at the time of the 1961 coup d'etat that brought Major-General Park Chung Hee to power.
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Marshall Green served as US Consul General to Hong Kong, at the Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong from November 1961 until August 1963.
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President of the United States Lyndon B Johnson nominated Green as United States Ambassador to Indonesia on June 4,1965, and Green presented his credentials to the Indonesian government on July 26,1965.
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Marshall Green was met with an anti-Vietnam War protest organized by Sukarno, the President of Indonesia, under the slogan "Go Home, Green".
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Marshall Green did most of the background work for President Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and he was one of thirteen State Department officials who accompanied Nixon during this trip.
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In 1973, President Nixon selected Marshall Green as United States Ambassador to Australia, a post he held until 1975.
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Marshall Green has been implicated in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by Australia's Governor General, John Kerr.
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Marshall Green retired from government service in 1979, joining the board of Population Crisis Committee, a non-profit committed to combating overpopulation.
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Marshall Green died of a heart attack on June 6,1998, at the age of 82.