Amory Houghton (July 27, 1899 – February 21, 1981)[1] served as United States Ambassador to France from 1957 to 1961[2] and as national president of the Boy Scouts of America.

[4] Houghton served as a director of the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank), the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (now MetLife), and the Erie Railroad.

[1] Houghton began his career in government as a dollar-a-year man in 1941 when he was appointed assistant deputy director of the materials division in the Office of Production Management.

[1] By August of the same year, he resigned and did not serve any government position after a Hartford-Empire, subsidiary of Corning, faced an antitrust suit.

[7] From 1943 to 1944, he was appointed as the chief mission officer for the Lend-Lease Administration,[1] a program by which the United States supplied the Allied nations with food, oil, warships, warplanes, and with other weaponry during World War II.

[10] Together, they were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters, including:[11] Houghton died at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 21, 1981.