Robert H. McBride

{{Short description|American diplomat}} '''Robert Henry McBride''' (May 25, 1918 – December 26, 1983)<ref>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGWZ-XYW Robert Mcbride, United States Social Security Death Index]</ref> was an American diplomat.<ref name="nytimes">[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/28/obituaries/robert-h-mcbride-65-was-us-ambassador.html Robert H. McBride, 65, Was U.S. Ambassador], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 28, 1983</ref> He served as [[United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo]] from 1967 to 1969 and as [[United States Ambassador to Mexico]] from 1969 to 1974.<ref name="nytimes"/><ref>[http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10458.htm United States Department of State archive, Congo]</ref><ref>[http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10948.htm United States Department of State archive, Mexico]</ref>

==Biography==

===Early life=== Robert Henry McBride was born in [[England]] to American parents, and attended schools in [[Spain]] and [[France]]. As a result, he spoke French and Spanish fluently.<ref name="nytimes"/> He graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1940.<ref name="nytimes"/>

===Career=== [[File:McBride, Mobutu, and Bomboko.jpg|thumb|McBride (left) with Congolese President [[Joseph-Désiré Mobutu]] and Foreign Minister [[Justin Marie Bomboko]] shortly after presenting his credentials as Ambassador to the Congo, 1967]] He joined the [[United States Foreign Service]] in 1941, and served in embassies in [[Havana]], [[Algiers]], [[Naples]], [[Port-au-Prince]], [[Rabat]], [[Paris]] and [[Madrid]].<ref name="nytimes"/> He served as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1967 to 1969, and to Mexico from 1969 to 1974.<ref name="nytimes"/>

In 1974, he became a diplomat-in-residence at the [[University of Virginia]] in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]].<ref name="nytimes"/> He sat on the board of directors of the [[Inter-American Council for Immigration and Development]].<ref name="nytimes"/>

===Personal life=== He was married to Jacqueline McBride, and they had three children.<ref name="nytimes"/>

==Bibliography== *''Mexico and the United States'' (editor; Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: [[Prentice Hall]], 1981)

==References== {{Reflist}}

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