David McKendree Key (February 4, 1900 – July 15, 1988) of

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, a descendant of

David M. Key David McKendree Key (January 27, 1824 – February 3, 1900) was a United States senator from Tennessee, United States Postmaster General and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennesse ...

, served as

United States Ambassador to Burma This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Burma. In 1989 the military government of Burma changed the name of the nation to Myanmar, but the United States government—and all other Western governments—do not accept the name and stil ...

from April 1950 to October 1951, and later as the

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of the

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. He graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher ...

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20021117075817/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10404.htm * https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/17/obituaries/david-mck-key-88-a-former-ambassador.html 1900 births 1988 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Myanmar Harvard College alumni United States Foreign Service personnel {{US-diplomat-stub