Robert Foster Corrigan
September 12, 1914 – September 26, 2005
Cleveland Ohio – North Bethesda, Maryland
The Honorable Robert Foster "Bob" Corrigan, the eldest son of Ethel Foster and Dr. Francis Patrick "Frank P" Corrigan, was born in Cleveland, OH, on September 12, 1914. He graduated from East High school in Cleveland and studied for two years at Washington and Lee University before graduating from Stanford in 1937. His career in the U.S. Department of State spanned 35 years, working mostly on overseas assignments on three continents.
Bob's calm intelligence and effortless, even handed and always tactful approach to life served him well as he honed his burgeoning skills at statecraft while serving as private secretary, 1939-41, to his father, Frank P. Corrigan, United States Ambassador to Venezuela (1939-47).
The son soon embarked his own career in foreign service, in 1941 (at the tender age of 27), and for the remainder of World War II and into the post-war period to 1948, he was stationed in Rio de Janeiro and Natal, Brazil.
Success there lead him to Europe where from 1948-52 he was political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. "We thought of him as a James Bond type," said Faith Corrigan of Willoughby, Ohio, his first cousin who visited him in Heidelberg at the height of the cold war. "He was very tight lipped. He never talked about what he was doing."
Bob courted Jane Carswell of Glens Falls, NY, and on May 15, 1952, they married in Hudson Falls, New York. They remained so over the next 53 years. In the decades following their wedding Bob and Jane raised 5 children.
Post nuptials the newlyweds soon dispatched to the U.S. Consulate in Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal), 1952-53, and pushed on to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, from 1954-57.
Reassigned to Washington D.C, he was a member of the National War College Class of 1958 and through 1959 served as the State Department's Deputy Chief of Protocol, where his duties included accompanying heads-of-state and other dignitaries as they visited the United States.
From 1960-65 he returned to Latin America as Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala, and from 1965-68 he served as political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command, in the Panama Canal Zone.
He then returned to Brazil, this time as American Consul General, in São Paulo, from 1968-72.
Bob was elevated further, to United States Ambassador to the African nation of Rwanda, in Kigali, 1972, by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Returning stateside, he capped his career in government service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, (DoD) Washington, from 1973-1975.
Upon retiring from Government in 1975, Bob transitioned to the private sector with United Brands Company as Public Affairs Representative in Washington. After 1990, he was a senior consultant for Chiquita Brands International. He also served as Director and Program Chairman of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and as a member of the International Affairs Committee of The Cosmos Club.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Town Club, Order of Malta, John Carroll Society, Church of the Little Flower, the Knights of Columbus, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and volunteered for Meals on Wheels.
In his wallet he carried a gag card that read "I am a very important Catholic. In case of emergency, please call a Bishop."
After their globetrotting, Bob and Jane settled in North Bethesda, Maryland. Bob passed away on September 26, 2005 at Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, and Jane died on June 20, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
They are survived by their five children, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren as of 2021.
Ambassador Corrigan was predeceased by his 4 siblings: Patricia Corrigan Pappano, Marta Corrigan Hannah, The Hon. Eddie Corrigan, and Kevin Corrigan.
Contributors: Mary Corrigan Ogden, Kevin Corrigan, Robert Foster Corrigan Jr. and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edited by Blaise Corrigan
September 12, 1914 – September 26, 2005
Cleveland Ohio – North Bethesda, Maryland
The Honorable Robert Foster "Bob" Corrigan, the eldest son of Ethel Foster and Dr. Francis Patrick "Frank P" Corrigan, was born in Cleveland, OH, on September 12, 1914. He graduated from East High school in Cleveland and studied for two years at Washington and Lee University before graduating from Stanford in 1937. His career in the U.S. Department of State spanned 35 years, working mostly on overseas assignments on three continents.
Bob's calm intelligence and effortless, even handed and always tactful approach to life served him well as he honed his burgeoning skills at statecraft while serving as private secretary, 1939-41, to his father, Frank P. Corrigan, United States Ambassador to Venezuela (1939-47).
The son soon embarked his own career in foreign service, in 1941 (at the tender age of 27), and for the remainder of World War II and into the post-war period to 1948, he was stationed in Rio de Janeiro and Natal, Brazil.
Success there lead him to Europe where from 1948-52 he was political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. "We thought of him as a James Bond type," said Faith Corrigan of Willoughby, Ohio, his first cousin who visited him in Heidelberg at the height of the cold war. "He was very tight lipped. He never talked about what he was doing."
Bob courted Jane Carswell of Glens Falls, NY, and on May 15, 1952, they married in Hudson Falls, New York. They remained so over the next 53 years. In the decades following their wedding Bob and Jane raised 5 children.
Post nuptials the newlyweds soon dispatched to the U.S. Consulate in Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal), 1952-53, and pushed on to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, from 1954-57.
Reassigned to Washington D.C, he was a member of the National War College Class of 1958 and through 1959 served as the State Department's Deputy Chief of Protocol, where his duties included accompanying heads-of-state and other dignitaries as they visited the United States.
From 1960-65 he returned to Latin America as Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala, and from 1965-68 he served as political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command, in the Panama Canal Zone.
He then returned to Brazil, this time as American Consul General, in São Paulo, from 1968-72.
Bob was elevated further, to United States Ambassador to the African nation of Rwanda, in Kigali, 1972, by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Returning stateside, he capped his career in government service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, (DoD) Washington, from 1973-1975.
Upon retiring from Government in 1975, Bob transitioned to the private sector with United Brands Company as Public Affairs Representative in Washington. After 1990, he was a senior consultant for Chiquita Brands International. He also served as Director and Program Chairman of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and as a member of the International Affairs Committee of The Cosmos Club.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Town Club, Order of Malta, John Carroll Society, Church of the Little Flower, the Knights of Columbus, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and volunteered for Meals on Wheels.
In his wallet he carried a gag card that read "I am a very important Catholic. In case of emergency, please call a Bishop."
After their globetrotting, Bob and Jane settled in North Bethesda, Maryland. Bob passed away on September 26, 2005 at Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, and Jane died on June 20, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
They are survived by their five children, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren as of 2021.
Ambassador Corrigan was predeceased by his 4 siblings: Patricia Corrigan Pappano, Marta Corrigan Hannah, The Hon. Eddie Corrigan, and Kevin Corrigan.
Contributors: Mary Corrigan Ogden, Kevin Corrigan, Robert Foster Corrigan Jr. and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edited by Blaise Corrigan
Robert Foster Corrigan
September 12, 1914 – September 26, 2005
Cleveland Ohio – North Bethesda, Maryland
The Honorable Robert Foster "Bob" Corrigan, the eldest son of Ethel Foster and Dr. Francis Patrick "Frank P" Corrigan, was born in Cleveland, OH, on September 12, 1914. He graduated from East High school in Cleveland and studied for two years at Washington and Lee University before graduating from Stanford in 1937. His career in the U.S. Department of State spanned 35 years, working mostly on overseas assignments on three continents.
Bob's calm intelligence and effortless, even handed and always tactful approach to life served him well as he honed his burgeoning skills at statecraft while serving as private secretary, 1939-41, to his father, Frank P. Corrigan, United States Ambassador to Venezuela (1939-47).
The son soon embarked his own career in foreign service, in 1941 (at the tender age of 27), and for the remainder of World War II and into the post-war period to 1948, he was stationed in Rio de Janeiro and Natal, Brazil.
Success there lead him to Europe where from 1948-52 he was political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. "We thought of him as a James Bond type," said Faith Corrigan of Willoughby, Ohio, his first cousin who visited him in Heidelberg at the height of the cold war. "He was very tight lipped. He never talked about what he was doing."
Bob courted Jane Carswell of Glens Falls, NY, and on May 15, 1952, they married in Hudson Falls, New York. They remained so over the next 53 years. In the decades following their wedding Bob and Jane raised 5 children.
Post nuptials the newlyweds soon dispatched to the U.S. Consulate in Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal), 1952-53, and pushed on to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, from 1954-57.
Reassigned to Washington D.C, he was a member of the National War College Class of 1958 and through 1959 served as the State Department's Deputy Chief of Protocol, where his duties included accompanying heads-of-state and other dignitaries as they visited the United States.
From 1960-65 he returned to Latin America as Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala, and from 1965-68 he served as political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command, in the Panama Canal Zone.
He then returned to Brazil, this time as American Consul General, in São Paulo, from 1968-72.
Bob was elevated further, to United States Ambassador to the African nation of Rwanda, in Kigali, 1972, by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Returning stateside, he capped his career in government service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, (DoD) Washington, from 1973-1975.
Upon retiring from Government in 1975, Bob transitioned to the private sector with United Brands Company as Public Affairs Representative in Washington. After 1990, he was a senior consultant for Chiquita Brands International. He also served as Director and Program Chairman of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and as a member of the International Affairs Committee of The Cosmos Club.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Town Club, Order of Malta, John Carroll Society, Church of the Little Flower, the Knights of Columbus, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and volunteered for Meals on Wheels.
In his wallet he carried a gag card that read "I am a very important Catholic. In case of emergency, please call a Bishop."
After their globetrotting, Bob and Jane settled in North Bethesda, Maryland. Bob passed away on September 26, 2005 at Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, and Jane died on June 20, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
They are survived by their five children, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren as of 2021.
Ambassador Corrigan was predeceased by his 4 siblings: Patricia Corrigan Pappano, Marta Corrigan Hannah, The Hon. Eddie Corrigan, and Kevin Corrigan.
Contributors: Mary Corrigan Ogden, Kevin Corrigan, Robert Foster Corrigan Jr. and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edited by Blaise Corrigan
September 12, 1914 – September 26, 2005
Cleveland Ohio – North Bethesda, Maryland
The Honorable Robert Foster "Bob" Corrigan, the eldest son of Ethel Foster and Dr. Francis Patrick "Frank P" Corrigan, was born in Cleveland, OH, on September 12, 1914. He graduated from East High school in Cleveland and studied for two years at Washington and Lee University before graduating from Stanford in 1937. His career in the U.S. Department of State spanned 35 years, working mostly on overseas assignments on three continents.
Bob's calm intelligence and effortless, even handed and always tactful approach to life served him well as he honed his burgeoning skills at statecraft while serving as private secretary, 1939-41, to his father, Frank P. Corrigan, United States Ambassador to Venezuela (1939-47).
The son soon embarked his own career in foreign service, in 1941 (at the tender age of 27), and for the remainder of World War II and into the post-war period to 1948, he was stationed in Rio de Janeiro and Natal, Brazil.
Success there lead him to Europe where from 1948-52 he was political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. "We thought of him as a James Bond type," said Faith Corrigan of Willoughby, Ohio, his first cousin who visited him in Heidelberg at the height of the cold war. "He was very tight lipped. He never talked about what he was doing."
Bob courted Jane Carswell of Glens Falls, NY, and on May 15, 1952, they married in Hudson Falls, New York. They remained so over the next 53 years. In the decades following their wedding Bob and Jane raised 5 children.
Post nuptials the newlyweds soon dispatched to the U.S. Consulate in Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal), 1952-53, and pushed on to the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, from 1954-57.
Reassigned to Washington D.C, he was a member of the National War College Class of 1958 and through 1959 served as the State Department's Deputy Chief of Protocol, where his duties included accompanying heads-of-state and other dignitaries as they visited the United States.
From 1960-65 he returned to Latin America as Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala, and from 1965-68 he served as political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command, in the Panama Canal Zone.
He then returned to Brazil, this time as American Consul General, in São Paulo, from 1968-72.
Bob was elevated further, to United States Ambassador to the African nation of Rwanda, in Kigali, 1972, by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
Returning stateside, he capped his career in government service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, (DoD) Washington, from 1973-1975.
Upon retiring from Government in 1975, Bob transitioned to the private sector with United Brands Company as Public Affairs Representative in Washington. After 1990, he was a senior consultant for Chiquita Brands International. He also served as Director and Program Chairman of the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs and as a member of the International Affairs Committee of The Cosmos Club.
He was a member of the Army and Navy Town Club, Order of Malta, John Carroll Society, Church of the Little Flower, the Knights of Columbus, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) and volunteered for Meals on Wheels.
In his wallet he carried a gag card that read "I am a very important Catholic. In case of emergency, please call a Bishop."
After their globetrotting, Bob and Jane settled in North Bethesda, Maryland. Bob passed away on September 26, 2005 at Adventist Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, and Jane died on June 20, 2021 in Miami, Florida.
They are survived by their five children, nine grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren as of 2021.
Ambassador Corrigan was predeceased by his 4 siblings: Patricia Corrigan Pappano, Marta Corrigan Hannah, The Hon. Eddie Corrigan, and Kevin Corrigan.
Contributors: Mary Corrigan Ogden, Kevin Corrigan, Robert Foster Corrigan Jr. and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edited by Blaise Corrigan
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