Skip to main content

Henry E. Catto Jr.









Henry E. Catto Jr.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (Redirected from Henry Catto)

Jump to navigation
Jump to search
































































































Henry E. Catto Jr.

Henry Catto.jpg
Ambassadorial photo

United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom

In office
May 17, 1989 – March 13, 1991
President George H. W. Bush
Preceded by Charles H. Price II
Succeeded by Raymond G. H. Seitz
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

In office
May 22, 1981 – September 16, 1983
President Ronald Reagan
Preceded by Thomas B. Ross
Succeeded by Michael I. Burch
Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva

In office
July 1, 1976 – April 4, 1977
President
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Francis L. Dale
Succeeded by William vanden Heuvel
Chief of Protocol of the United States

In office
April 3, 1974 – July 1, 1976
President
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Preceded by Marion H. Smoak
Succeeded by Shirley Temple Black
United States Ambassador to El Salvador

In office
October 21, 1971 – September 2, 1973
President Richard Nixon
Preceded by William G. Bowdler
Succeeded by James F. Campbell

Personal details
Born
(1930-12-06)December 6, 1930
Dallas, Texas, United States[1]
Died December 18, 2011(2011-12-18) (aged 81)
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Nationality American
Profession Diplomat

Henry Edward Catto Jr. (December 6, 1930 – December 18, 2011) was an American businessman and public servant.[2]


A native of San Antonio, Texas and son of a prominent insurance man, he was educated at T.M.I.—The Episcopal School of Texas, graduating in 1948, and at Williams College, graduating in 1952. In the early 1960s, Catto twice ran for the Texas Legislature as a Republican, losing both times. In his 1960 attempt, he lost to notorious San Antonio gambler V. E. "Red" Berry.[3]


Catto held several positions within the United States government. He was the Deputy Representative to the Organization of American States from 1969 to 1971, Ambassador to El Salvador from 1971 to 1973, the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1974 to 1976, the Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1976 to 1977,[4] and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs from 1981 to 1983.
In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed him as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He held the position until 1991, when he became the director of the United States Information Agency.[5]


From 1955 to 2000, he was a partner in the insurance brokerage firm Catto & Catto in San Antonio. From 1983 to 1989, he was vice chairman and president of a broadcast group at H&C Communications, operator of network television stations (Houston, Des Moines, Tucson, Nashville, Orlando-Daytona Beach, San Antonio). In 1999, he was elected chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and in 2007, its chairman emeritus. He was a contributing editor of the American Journalism Review. At the time of his death, he was vice chairman of the Aspen Institute, where he and his wife, Jessica Hobby Catto, had established the Catto Fellowship for a Sustainable Future. He and his wife also supported the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies.


Catto was a member of the board of the National Public Radio Foundation, having served on the NPR Board from 1995 to 2001. He was also a member of the Smithsonian National Board, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Advisory Council of America Abroad Media. He was Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Texas at San Antonio, held honorary LLD degrees from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and was a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in London. He authored Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat (University of Texas Press, 1998).


Ambassador Catto was married to the late Jessica Hobby, daughter of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby. Jessica Hobby Catto was a noted conservationist and journalist who wrote a blog for the Huffington Post on conservation, the media, and political issues right up until her death in 2009.[6] Together the Cattos had four children. Henry Catto died at his home in San Antonio, Texas on December 18, 2011.[7]



References[edit]





  1. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (December 21, 2011). "Henry E. Catto Jr., Who Served 4 Presidents, Dies at 81". The New York Times..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Henry E. Catto Jr. 1930 — 2011" (obituary). Aspen Daily News Online. 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-21. External link in |publisher= (help)


  3. ^ Catto, Henry E. (1998). Ambassadors at Sea: The High and Low Adventures of a Diplomat. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-292-71212-6. OCLC 39045205. Retrieved 2007-08-09.


  4. ^ "Representatives of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva)". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2011-08-14.


  5. ^ "Henry Catto". The Daily Telegraph. London. December 26, 2011.


  6. ^ "Jessica Hobby Catto" (obituary). The Austin American-Statesman. 2009. Retrieved 2010-04-25.


  7. ^ "Henry Edward Catto Jr" (obituary). The Austin American-Statesman. 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-21.





  • "Henry E. Catto Jr". Council of American Ambassadors. 2004. Archived from the original (biography) on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2007.


  • "Henry E. Catto". Aspen Institute. 2006. Archived from the original (biography) on August 7, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2007.


  • "Henry E. Catto". America Abroad Media. 2008. Archived from the original (biography) on January 5, 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2008.



External links[edit]



  • Appearances on C-SPAN













Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
William G. Bowdler

U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
October 21, 1971 – September 2, 1973
Succeeded by
James F. Campbell
Preceded by
Charles H. Price II

U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
April 14, 1989 – March 13, 1991
Succeeded by
Raymond G. H. Seitz











Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_E._Catto_Jr.&oldid=854091740"





Navigation menu

























(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.656","walltime":"0.801","ppvisitednodes":{"value":11431,"limit":1000000},"ppgeneratednodes":{"value":0,"limit":1500000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":75515,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":5807,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":20,"limit":40},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":3,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":1,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":23657,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":2,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 729.261 1 -total"," 65.51% 477.771 11 Template:Infobox"," 56.03% 408.578 1 Template:Infobox_ambassador"," 29.90% 218.020 17 Template:Infobox_officeholder/office"," 21.95% 160.070 1 Template:Reflist"," 10.89% 79.441 2 Template:Cite_news"," 5.74% 41.840 2 Template:Succession_box"," 5.69% 41.526 1 Template:Cite_book"," 5.33% 38.872 1 Template:Authority_control"," 5.21% 38.011 7 Template:Cite_web"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.295","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":5028423,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw1241","timestamp":"20190103054645","ttl":86400,"transientcontent":true}}});});{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Henry E. Catto Jr.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_E._Catto_Jr.","sameAs":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5720597","mainEntity":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5720597","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2006-06-26T21:35:49Z","dateModified":"2018-08-08T22:23:07Z","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Henry_Catto.jpg","headline":"American diplomat"}(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":113,"wgHostname":"mw1321"});});

Popular posts from this blog

1300-talet

1300-talet

Display a custom attribute below product name in the front-end Magento 1.9.3.8