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Canadian civil servant and diplomat, born in Toronto on 18 March 1924. Through Seaborn, the United States established a diplomatic contact with North Vietnam in 1964 during the Vietnam war, which role is described in Robert McNamara's book In Retrospect as follows: "During the summer of 1964, the Johnson administration initiated the first of several diplomatic contacts with North Vietnam through J. Blair Seaborn, Canada's representative on the International Control Commission (ICC). Seaborn told Hanoi that if it agreed to cease its support for the Vietcong and end the conflict, the United States would provide it economic aid and diplomatic support. Otherwise, it could anticipate American air and naval attacks. North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong replied that the United States must withdraw from South Vietnam and accept Vietcong participation in a neutral coalition government. The two sides were far apart."

Brother of The Most Reverend Robert Lowder Seaborn.