Robert Amory Jr. (1915 - 1989)

Born 2 Mar 1915 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Armstrong) Amory — married 1938 in Boston, Mass

Died 19 Apr 1989 at age 74 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

Robert Amory Jr., Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from 1952 to 1962 and later head of the international division of the Bureau of the Budge

Mr. Amory practiced law with the firm of Cahill, Gordon in New York before World War II and, after his Government service, with the Washington firm of Corcoran, Foley, Youngman & Rowe.

He entered the Army in 1941 as a private and emerged six years later as a colonel. He commanded an amphibious regiment in the New Guinea and Philippine campaigns and was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action as well as the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.

A native of Boston, Mr. Amory was a graduate of Milton Academy and of Harvard College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Harvard Law School. He was a professor at the law school from 1946 to 1952, developing its first course in accounting.

At the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Amory was a member of the National Security Council Planning Board. In 1961 he was openly critical of the Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba, which he had not been consulted about despite his status as an official of the C.I.A. and the National Security Council.

He left the C.I.A. in 1962 and joined the budget bureau, where he remained until 1965. In 1973 he became secretary and general counsel of the National Gallery of Art, a post he held until his retirement in 1980. He was a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers from 1963 to 1969.

He died of cancer

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ57-LVH : accessed 16 July 2018), Robert Amory, Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 62, sheet 23A, line 5, family 554, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 935; FHL microfilm 2,340,670.

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