Ural Alexis Johnson (October 17, 1908 – March 24, 1997) was a United States diplomat, born in Falun, Kansas.
He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and entered the Foreign Service in 1935. After serving in Tokyo, Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang, where he was interned at the start of World War II), and Rio de Janeiro, he was assigned as Consul and later Consul General at Yokohama, Japan from 1945 to 1949. From 1949 to 1953 he served in various positi...
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Ural Alexis Johnson (October 17, 1908 – March 24, 1997) was a United States diplomat, born in Falun, Kansas.
He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and entered the Foreign Service in 1935. After serving in Tokyo, Seoul, Mukden (now Shenyang, where he was interned at the start of World War II), and Rio de Janeiro, he was assigned as Consul and later Consul General at Yokohama, Japan from 1945 to 1949. From 1949 to 1953 he served in various positions in the Department of State's Far East Bureau, mainly concerned with Japan and Korea, rising to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with responsibilities for the entire bureau." He played a role in the ceasefire in the Korean War. He was ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1958, Thailand from 1958 to 1961, and to Japan from 1966 to 1969. While Ambassador to Czechoslovakia he represented the United States in a long series of meetings in Geneva with the Chinese Communists, in the absence of diplomatic relations these were the...
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