Walter P. McConaughy

Walter P. McConaughy
McConaughy in 1953
United States Ambassador to the Republic of China
In office June 28, 1966 – April 4, 1974
President	Lyndon B. Johnson Richard M. Nixon
Preceded by	Jerauld Wright
Succeeded by	Leonard S. Unger
United States Ambassador to Pakistan
In office March 20, 1962 – May 27, 1966
President	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by	William M. Rountree
Succeeded by	Eugene M. Locke
6th Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
In office April 24, 1961 – December 3, 1961
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	J. Graham Parsons
Succeeded by	W. Averell Harriman
5th United States Ambassador to Korea
In office December 17, 1959 – April 12, 1961
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Walter C. Dowling
Succeeded by	Samuel D. Berger
United States Ambassador to Burma
In office August 20, 1957 – November 2, 1959
President	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Preceded by	Joseph C. Satterthwaite
Succeeded by	William P. Snow
Personal details
Born	Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (1908-09-11)September 11, 1908 Montevallo, Alabama, U.S.
Died	November 10, 2000(2000-11-10) (aged 92) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Spouse	Dorothy Davis
Children	2
Education	Birmingham–Southern College Duke University
Profession	Diplomat

Walter Patrick McConaughy Jr. (September 11, 1908 – November 10, 2000) was a career American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to a number of countries.

Education

McConaughy attended Birmingham–Southern College and Duke University, graduating in 1930.

Career

McConaughy joined the US State Department after graduation. He first served in Tampico, Mexico and then in 1933 was posted to Kobe, Japan, where he served for seven years with brief spells in Taiwan and Nagasaki. He was transferred to Beiping in 1941. When the Pacific War commenced he was interned and then repatriated. He then served in La Paz, Bolivia as a commercial attache, and then Rio de Janeiro.

In 1948, was posted to as Consul at the United States Consulate General in Shanghai and was promoted to Consul General in 1949. Following the Communist victory in China, he closed the Shanghai Consulate and moved to Hong Kong. McConaughy's reports from that period show a burning clarity in their analysis of Chinese Communist propaganda and the currents of information available in Hong Kong.

After returning to Washington to serve alongside Edwin M. Martin and O.E. Clubb in the Office of Chinese Affairs, he served as the ambassador to Burma from May 1957 to November 1959. He then accepted an offer to become the ambassador to South Korea, a post he held from 1959 to 1961, later becoming the ambassador to Pakistan from 1962 to 1966 and the ambassador to the Republic of China from 1966 to 1974.

McConaughy died in 2000.