Thomas Lowe Hughes (December 11, 1925 – January 2, 2023) was an American government official who was the
Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research
The Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research is the head of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) within the United States Department of State. Before 1986, the head of INR was the Director of the Bureau of Intelligenc ...
during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. From 1971 he was President of the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was also counsel to Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey from 1955 to 1958.
Born in
Mankato, Minnesota
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on December 11, 1925, Hughes was educated at
Carleton College, Minnesota,
Oxford University
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, as a
Rhodes Scholar, and
Yale Law School
Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...
, graduating in 1952.
Hughes died in
Washington D.C.
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, on January 2, 2023, at the age of 97.
References
3. Smith, Bruce. 2022. The Last Gentleman: Thomas Hughes and the end of the American Century. Brookings Institution, 978-0-8157-3890-9.
1925 births
2023 deaths
American Rhodes Scholars
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Yale Law School alumni
People from Mankato, Minnesota
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