Edson O. Sessions
Edson Oliver Sessions (November 5, 1902 Toledo, Ohio – November 15, 1987 Laguna Hills, California) was a consulting engineer from Chicago who served as the American ambassador to Finland (1959–1960) and Ecuador (1968–1970).[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Sessions graduated with a B.S. from Harvard University in 1925.[3] He died at his home in Laguna Hills.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1925 he was made Vice President in Charge of Construction for his father's firm, the E.O. Sessions Engineering Company. In 1930, he went to work for Bendix Aviation.[3] When his father died, Sessions took over his father's business until he sold it in 1954.[1] (Another source says he stayed at Bendix until 1935, when he opened up his own company called Sessions Engineering Company of Chicago).[3] Sessions was appointed Deputy Postmaster General by Dwight D. Eisenhower and served until Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Ambassador to Ecuador.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "EX-AMBASSADOR EDSON SESSIONS". Chicago Tribune. November 18, 1987. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Edson Oliver Sessions (1902–1987)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Briefing of the Honorable Daon O. sessions" (PDF). CIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- ^ "Edson O. Sessions, Envoy to Finland, Ecuador". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 1987. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
| Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |  | |
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| Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary | ||
- Ambassadors of the United States to Finland
- Ambassadors of the United States to Ecuador
- 1902 births
- 1987 deaths
- Harvard University alumni
- People from Laguna Hills, California
- People from Toledo, Ohio
- 20th-century American engineers
- American industrial engineers
- United States Postal Service people
- Bendix Corporation people
- Engineers from Ohio