Artemus E. Weatherbee (February 9, 1918 - November 19, 1995)[1] was an American Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and director of the Asian Development Bank with the rank of ambassador.
A Kirstein scholarship enabled him to attend and graduate from the University of Maine at Orono,[2] from where he was recruited into the New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt as Chief Appointment and Planning Officer of the Farm Credit Administration, based in Kansas City, Missouri.
[4] In 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed Weatherbee as the American Director of the Asian Development Bank, based in Manila, with the rank of ambassador.
He told the Bangor Daily News on returning from the Philippines, for example, that Ferdinand Marcos' declaration of martial law had saved Manila from "really complete chaos" and rendered it "once again a beautiful and livable city".
[6] Weatherbee is the recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award for leadership in the Treasury Dept., as well as the $10,000 Rockefeller Prize.