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Robert Helyer Thayer (
22 September 1901 –
26 January 1984) was an American
lawyer, naval officer and
diplomat.
Early life
Thayer was born in
Southborough,
Massachusetts, the son of Rev.
William Greenough Thayer (1863–1934), headmaster of
St. Mark's School from 1894–1930, and Violet Otis Thayer (1871–1962). He attended St. Mark's School, then studied for degrees from
Amherst College and
Harvard University. His elder brother,
Sigourney Thayer (1896–1944), was a theatrical producer, aviator and poet.
Legal career
Thayer practiced law in
New York City under Gen
William Joseph Donovan.
Thayer assisted
Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer,
Col. Henry S. Breckinridge on the famous
Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in
Hopewell, NJ, until the body of the child was found on
12 May,
1932.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for this crime in 1936.
Naval career
During
World War II, Thayer was commissioned in the US Navy. He was an intelligence officer in the South Pacific early in the war and then went to Europe, where he took part in the invasions of
Normandy and southern France. He returned to the Pacific in time for the invasion of the
Philippines.
Diplomatic career
In 1945, he was an assistant to
John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the
Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the
United Nations at
San Francisco.
In 1950, he began his formal career in diplomacy, as an assistant to the US Ambassador to
France. From 1955 – 1958, US minister to
Romania and then went to the State Department as assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs.
Later life
Thayer was appointed a trustee of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1966 and was vice-chairman from 1975 – 1977.
He died in
Washington DC on 26 January, 1984 of
leukemia.
Personal life
He married Virginia Pratt (1905–1979) in 1926. She was the daughter of lawyer, financier and philanthropist
John Teele Pratt and Congresswoman
Ruth Baker Pratt.
They had three children:
- Robert H. Thayer, Jr.
- Stephen Badger Thayer
- Sally Sears Thayer
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