collaboration with Nazi Germany and publicly protested the deportation and internment of French Jews. Tuck served until the Nazis occupied Vichy and briefly imprisoned him at Lourdes. In 1944 he was named US Minister to Egypt, and he was named the first US Ambassador to Egypt in 1946. Well known in Egypt from living there with his father, and fluent in Egyptian, he was admired by his State Department peers for his ability to handle crisis situations, most notably when he helped calm anti-American unrest in Egypt after the founding of Israel. Tuck resigned as Ambassador in 1948 and was named a Director of Suez Canal Company, serving until the Egyptian government nationalized the waterway in 1956. He then lived in retirement at homes in Paris, Geneva, and Grosse Point, Michigan, and died at the American Hospital in Paris after a long illness.
collaboration with Nazi Germany and publicly protested the deportation and internment of French Jews. Tuck served until the Nazis occupied Vichy and briefly imprisoned him at Lourdes. In 1944 he was named US Minister to Egypt, and he was named the first US Ambassador to Egypt in 1946. Well known in Egypt from living there with his father, and fluent in Egyptian, he was admired by his State Department peers for his ability to handle crisis situations, most notably when he helped calm anti-American unrest in Egypt after the founding of Israel. Tuck resigned as Ambassador in 1948 and was named a Director of Suez Canal Company, serving until the Egyptian government nationalized the waterway in 1956. He then lived in retirement at homes in Paris, Geneva, and Grosse Point, Michigan, and died at the American Hospital in Paris after a long illness.
Bio by: Bill McKern
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