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H. Merle Cochran

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From 1941 to 1948, Cochran served as a Senior Foreign Service Inspector. He was nominated to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan in 1949, but was never confirmed. He served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia from 1949 to 1953. He was commissioned during a recess of the
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of 1951. When the negotiations were made public, opposition in Indonesia's parliament emerged, eventually culminating with the resignation of Soebardjo and then-
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to serve as Financial Secretary of the Embassy. Cochran briefly left the State Department to serve as the Technical Assistant to the
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Cochran retired from the Foreign Service in 1953, and worked as Deputy Managing Director of the
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from 1953 to 1962. From 1963 to 1969, he served as the Chairman of the Greek consortium of the
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In January 1952, Cochran engaged in private negotiations with Indonesian Foreign Minister
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American diplomat, economist and career Foreign Service Officer
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and recommissioned on February 2, 1950, after confirmation.
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The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia
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United States Ambassador to Indonesia
Harry S. Truman
Hugh S. Cumming Jr.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Houston, Texas
Alma mater
University of Arizona
BS
MS
Foreign Service Officer
Crawfordsville, Indiana
University of Arizona
United States Foreign Service
Germany
Mexico
Guatemala
Switzerland
Jamaica
Haiti
Montreal
Canada
United States Department of State
Washington, D.C.
Paris
Switzerland
France
United States Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
United States Senate

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