David MacEachron

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Born1934
Grinnell, Iowa
Died1990 (Age 56)
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York State
NationalityUS
Alma materYale, Harvard
Member ofCouncil on Foreign Relations/Historical Members
Interests“overpopulation”
Vice President and program manager at the Council on Foreign Relations 1962-1974

Employment.png Vice President

In office
1949 - 1951
EmployerMarshall Plan

David Wells MacEachron was Vice President of Council on Foreign Relations and president of the Japan Society.

Background

MacEachron was born in Grinnell, Iowa, to parents who had been Congregational missionaries in China. He grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, and Des Moines, and received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Yale. He also got a master's degree in public administration and a doctorate in economics from Harvard.[1]

In World War II, he was in the Navy's Pacific Fleet on a submarine assigned primarily to rescuing downed American pilots.[1]

Career

Mr. MacEachron was successively executive director and president of the organization, which advances understanding between the United States and Japan. Despite his worsening illness, he remained an active adviser to the society's board at Japan House, at 333 East 47th Street.

After the war, his assignments included stints in Paris for the Marshall Plan[2], in Washington for the Bureau of the Budget and in New York where, from 1962 to 1974, he was successively program director and vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In later years, he was increasingly concerned about ecological dangers and overpopulation.[1]

He was the president of the Japan Society for 15 years. "He was a staunch advocate of liberalized trade, of close American-Japanese economic cooperation, and of the nations' joint repudiation of any effort to achieve dual dominance of other economies."[1]


 

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