Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr.

Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1886–1966) was an American diplomat.

Patterson was the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944–1946), Guatemala (1948–1951), and U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1951–53). While ambassador to Guatemala, he popularized the term duck test.[1]

Patterson Affair

Amid charges in Guatemala that Patterson was intervening in Guatemala's internal affairs, and rumors that Patterson's life was in danger, Patterson hurriedly departed for the United States on March 28, 1950.[2] His mission in Guatemala was terminated on April 24, 1951, when a new ambassador, Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, presented his credentials.[3]

References

1. Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.
2. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
3. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Note 5. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

External links

• http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/rcpbio3.html
• The Richard Cunningham Papers at the Truman Library

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Lincoln MacVeagh	United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1944–1946	Succeeded by Cavendish W. Cannon
Preceded by Edwin Jackson Kyle	United States Ambassador to Guatemala 1948–1951	Succeeded by Rudolf E. Schoenfeld