John O'Leary (ambassador)
John O'Leary | |
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United States Ambassador to Chile | |
In office August 19, 1998 – June 29, 2001 | |
President | Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón |
Succeeded by | William R. Brownfield |
Mayor of Portland, Maine | |
In office 1980–1981 | |
Preceded by | Llewellyn Smith |
Succeeded by | Pamela Plumb |
Personal details | |
Born | January 16, 1947 Portland, Maine |
Died | April 2, 2005 Washington, D.C. | (aged 58)
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Patricia Cepeda |
John O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton.
Personal life[edit]
O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on to a private law practice.
O'Leary married a fellow Yale student, Patricia Cepeda, the daughter of Colombian writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio.[1] John and Patricia O'Leary had two daughters. The O'Learys endowed the John O'Leary and Patricia Cepeda Fellowship for the Study of Latin America at Yale College.
Political career[edit]
He served as a member of the Portland City Council 1975-82) and for a term as that city's largely ceremonial Mayor (1980–81). He ran unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House from Maine's First Congressional District in 1982, losing in the Democratic primary.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Martin, Gerald (5 May 2009). "Gabriel García Márquez: a life". Random House Inc. ISBN 9780307272003.
- ^ "John O'Leary, 58; Portland mayor became ambassador to Chile". Boston Globe. April 4, 2005. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
Sources[edit]
- Holley, Joe (2005-04-03). "John O'Leary Dies; Mayor, Ambassador to Chile". The Washington Post. p. C08. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
External links[edit]
- "John O'Leary: Working towards justice for Pinochet's victims" David Sugarman, The Guardian, 20 May 2005
- "Tale of Two Ambassadors: One exposed the death squads, the other covered them up" Marc Cooper, LA Weekly, 14 April 2005
- "Nomination of John O'Leary to be United States Ambassador to Chile" Olympia Snow, Congressional Record, 26 June 1998
- John O'Leary Papers Georgetown University
- Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
- 20th-century American lawyers
- Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United States
- Neurological disease deaths in Washington, D.C.
- Mayors of Portland, Maine
- Ambassadors of the United States to Chile
- Yale Law School alumni
- 1947 births
- 2005 deaths
- 20th-century American politicians