He attended the Episcopal Academy, continuing his education at Princeton University, Class of 1946.
[3] He served in the Second World War in the 20th Armored Division, landed in Europe in January 1945 and experienced bitter fighting in the Rhine valley.
His division was involved with the Liberation of Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.
[4] He joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was Vice consul in Istanbul from 1952 to 1953; Charge d' affaires in the Central African Republic from 1960–1961, in Paris from 1961–1963, and in Morocco from 1963–1965; Deputy chief of mission in Dakar from 1967–1970, in Nairobi from 1970-1972, and in Copenhagen from 1975–1978.
President of the 20th Armored Division association and commander of American Legion Post 136 in Greenbelt, Maryland.