James MacGregor Byrne (1909-1979)
Lawyer & Foreign Service Officer, of New York City & Chevy Chase, Maryland
After law school and a two-year clerkship with a law firm in New York, he joined the Harvard-Columbus expedition. Having been a Special Assistant to the American Ambassador in Argentina, after WWII he became a Foreign Service Officer, serving in Berne, Addis Ababa, and Tunis before returning to Washington in 1958 as the Assistant Chief of the Aviation in the Department of State. From 1960, he co-ordinated the senior seminar program in foreign policy at the Foreign Service Institute and in 1962 became a member of the U.S. mission to NATO.
