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Robinson McIlvaine (17 July 1913 – 24 June 2001) was a career US diplomat who was President of the African Wildlife Foundation from 1978 to 1982. ==Early years== McIlvaine was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1913. He graduated from Harvard College.〔 McIlvaine served in the U.S. Navy in Panama prior to the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He was made commanding officer of a submarine chaser in the Guadalcanal area, and later became captain of a destroyer escort on Atlantic convoy duty, reaching the rank of Commander.〔 McIlvaine's first wife, Jane McClary, was a writer for the Times Herald and Fortune magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jane McIlvaine McClary )〕 After they married, in 1946 McIlvaine became the owner, editor and publisher of ''The Archive'', a Downingtown weekly that had been founded 1853 but was no longer much more than an advertising sheet, with 1,750 subscribers. Jane wrote a book about their years at the paper called ''It Happens Every Thursday''. The book was made into a movie starring John Forsythe and Loretta Young, and then into a television series. While an editor, McIlvaine became active in Republican politics.〔 Leaving the paper, he joined the State Department in 1953 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. He held the posts of Deputy Chief of Mission in Lisbon and Director of the Inter-Departmental Seminar. He became Chairman of the U.S. Section of the Caribbean Commission.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robinson McIlvaine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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