Maurice Pate

(1894-1965) born in Pender, Thurston County. Businessman, first executive director of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) which he helped to establish; refused in 1960 to allow his nomination for the Nobel Prize, an honor, he said, that belonged to UNICEF, not to an individual; UNICEF received Nobel Prize for peace in 1965. Consult New Yorker, December 2, 1961, pp. 69+ and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 7 (1981) 599-600.

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