John Scott Everton (March 7, 1908 – January 23, 2003) was an American college president and diplomat. He was educated at

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Divinity School,

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, and Yale. He worked on the research staff at the

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. He served as president of

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in 1949–53, and as U.S. Ambassador to Burma in 1961–63. In 1968–71, he was president of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, before it was incorporated into Boğaziçi University. He volunteered his time as an interpreter at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in the early 1990s.

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Presidents of Kalamazoo College

(U.S. State Department) * Social Security Death Index listing for JOHN S EVERTON * "U.S. Envoy to Burma Resigns," ''New York Times'', May 9, 1963 * "Ex-Envoy Heads College in Turkey," ''New York Times'', April 28, 1968 1908 births 2003 deaths Presidents of Kalamazoo College Ambassadors of the United States to Myanmar United States Foreign Service personnel 20th-century American academics {{US-diplomat-stub