Roy R. Rubottom Jr.
American diplomat
Roy Richard Rubottom Jr. (February 13, 1912 – December 6, 2010) was an American diplomat, most notable for being Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1957 to 1960, a post in which he played a major role in engineering the United States' response to the Cuban Revolution.
Biography
Early years (1912–1947)
Rubottom was born in Brownwood, Texas, on February 13, 1912. His parents ran a boarding house.
He was educated at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1933.
There he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and in 1933, he became the fraternity's seventh full-time traveling secretary (educational leadership consultant) from 1933 to 1935. In 1937, he became dean of student life at the University of Texas at Austin.
He married a student, Billy Ruth Young of Corsicana, Texas, in 1938, and together the couple had three children: a daughter, Eleanor Ann (Rubottom) Odden and two sons, Frank Richard Rubottom and John William Rubottom. During his time at the University of Texas, he also did graduate level studies from 1939 to 1941. In fall 1941, Rubottom joined the United States Navy with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade).
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