Ambassador George C. McGhee

During his diplomatic service and other international work of more than thirty years George McGhee assembled an extensive collection of correspondence, documents and books. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs (1949-51), Ambassador to Turkey (1951-53), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1961-63), Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (1963-68), and served in many other diplomatic and international positions. His recent book Envoy to the Middle World is an account of his diplomatic services in the Near East, Africa and Asia. Ambassador McGhee is a Georgetown Library Associates trustee, a member of the Board of Visitors of the School of Foreign Service and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He contributed a handsome room in the Intercultural Center for his renowned collections of books on Turkey, Asia Minor, the Ottoman Empire and diplomacy. A catalog of the books on Turkey and Asia Minor has been published by the Georgetown University Library. His personal papers are in the Special Collections of the Lauinger Library.