Richard C. Patterson Jr.

(1886-1966) born at Omaha. Civil engineer, corporate executive, public servant, was U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Guatemala, and Switzerland from 1945 to 1953, and earlier during World War I was administrative officer of the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference, where he also co-founded the American Legion; held executive positions more than 30 years with National Broadcasting Company, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, the Import-Export Bank, the City of New York, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Consult Current Biography (1946) 464-466 and New York Times obituary, October 1, 1966, p. 31 and American National Biography, Vol 17 (1999) 138-139.

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