[2] He married Adele Ritchie on October 6, 1942 (shortly before his deployment with the Marines) in Omaha, Nebraska, and together the couple had three sons and three daughters.

[4] He spent 1956-59 in Washington, D.C., at the State Department's Economics Bureau, then returned to the field, spending 1959–63 in Vienna.

[5] In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson named Porter United States Ambassador to Lebanon, and he held this post from June 22, 1965 until September 12, 1970.

According to Kilgore, Porter said that he “saw the telex, read it, and passed it right back” to the embassy official who had shown it to him and quoted him as recalling that the transcript showed “Israel was attacking, and they know it’s an American ship.”[13][14] In the early 1970s, Porter was the U.S.'s Resident Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

[16] In retirement, Porter split his time between Lake Forest, Illinois and Rancho Mirage, California.