George Walbridge Perkins Jr. | |
Office1: | 3rd United States Permanent Representative to NATO |
President1: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start1: | March 14, 1955 |
Term End1: | October 12, 1957 |
Predecessor1: | John Chambers Hughes |
Successor1: | Warren Randolph Burgess |
Order2: | 1st |
Office2: | Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs |
President2: | Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start2: | August 1, 1949 |
Term End2: | January 31, 1953 |
Predecessor2: | Position established |
Successor2: | Livingston T. Merchant |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1895 |
Birth Place: | Bronx, New York, U.S. |
Death Place: | Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
George Walbridge Perkins II (May 2, 1895 – January 11, 1960) was an American diplomat .He served as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1949 to 1953 and as United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 1955 to 1957.
He was born on May 2, 1895, to George Walbridge Perkins. He graduated from Princeton in 1917, where he worked to abolish eating clubs. In 1921 he married Linn Merck, daughter of George W. Merck.[1] and In 1925, his son George Walbridge Perkins III (1925–2008) was born.[2] He worked at Merck & Co., Inc. from 1927 to 1948.[3] In 1950, he successfully persuaded Congress to assist Josip Broz Tito in his defiance of the Stalin regime. Perkins died of a heart attack in Manhattan on January 11, 1960.[4]