{{short description|American academic}} {{more citations needed|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Yarmolinsky | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|11|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|1|5|1922|11|17|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | parents = [[Avrahm Yarmolinsky]] and [[Babette Deutsch]] | other_names = | occupation = Lawyer | years_active = | alma_mater = [[Yale Law School]]<br>[[Harvard College]] | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Adam Yarmolinsky''' (November 17, 1922 – January 5, 2000) was an American academic, educator and author, as well as a political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] and [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] administrations.
Besides serving in the [[White House]], he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Robert McNamara]] at [[the Pentagon]], where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the [[Vietnam War]].
==Biography== Yarmolinsky attended the [[Ethical Culture Fieldston School|Fieldston School]] in [[Riverdale, Bronx|Riverdale]] and then graduated from [[Harvard College]] where he was editorial director of the ''[[Harvard Crimson]]''. He enlisted in the [[US Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]] and rose to the rank of sergeant.
Yarmolinsky took a law degree from [[Yale Law School]] in 1948. He served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York, and later as a clerk to Supreme Court Justice [[Stanley Forman Reed|Stanley F. Reed]] during the 1950 Term.
Following his service in the U.S. government, Yarmolinsky became Regent's Professor of Public Policy at the [[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]] (UMBC), where he served as Provost. Another academic post was as Ralph Waldo Emerson Professor at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in the mid 1970s.<ref>{{cite journal|title=UMass Boston Bulletin|journal=University of Massachusetts Boston|date=May 1, 1973|volume=4|issue=35|pages=3|url=http://scholarworks.umb.edu/umb_bulletin/104|access-date=February 7, 2017}}</ref> He was also a founding member of the [[Institute of Medicine]] of the [[U.S. National Academy of Sciences]]. In 1967, Yarmolinsky was named a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>[https://www.amacad.org/ Membership search], American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 7, 2017.</ref>
==Marriage== On February 3, 1990, he married Dr. Sarah Ames Ellis, a clinical psychologist, in an Episcopalian ceremony in [[Manhattan]]. It was his third marriage. His first marriage was to Harriet L Rypins. His second marriage was to Jane Marie Cox Vonnegut, [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s first wife. She died in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Dr. Sarah Ellis, Psychologist, Marries Adam Yarmolinsky, College Provost|date=11 February 1990|publisher=|access-date=15 September 2016|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
==Death== He died, aged 77, at Georgetown University Hospital, of [[leukemia]]. He was survived by his third wife; his first wife, Harriet Yarmolinsky; and four children. Harriet Yarmolinsky died in January 2008 at age 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=24&id=17908|title=Brooklyn Daily Eagle - ALL BROOKLYN, ALL THE TIME|publisher=|access-date=15 September 2016}}</ref>
== See also == {{Portal|Biography}} * [[List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6)]]
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==External links== * [http://www.anb.org/articles/07/07-00853.html American National Biography Online] *[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/style/dr-sarah-ellis-psychologist-marries-adam-yarmolinsky-college-provost.html Marriage] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/07/us/adam-yarmolinsky-dies-at-77-led-revamping-of-government.html New York Times obituary] *[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/01/07/adam-yarmolinsky-dies/c83048df-96e2-4752-b26c-94cff43c4515/ Washington Post obituary] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041103192900/http://www.umbc.edu/AboutUMBC/Welcome/Yarmolinsky/yarmolinsky.html University of Maryland, Baltimore campus site] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705012105/http://www.pugwash.org/reports/pim/pim24.htm Biodata] *[http://www.harpers.org/subjects/AdamYarmolinsky Harper's Magazine] *[https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/mss026 Adam Yarmolinsky Papers, 1973-1977 at Indiana University Indianapolis]
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