Edward Paul Brynn, (August 1, 1942 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)[1] was a career diplomat, historian and educator.
[1] On April 17, 1967, he married Jane Ursula Cooke in Garden City, New York.
[5] Brynn entered the Foreign Service in 1972, serving in a variety of posts including Colombo (Junior Political and then Economic Officer 1973-1975); the Air Force Academy (1975-1978) on detail from State; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (for Senator Patrick Leahy 1981-1982); National War College as Deputy Commandant (1998-1999).
[1] After he retired in July 1999, he was Associate Provost for International Programs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte until 2005 and from 2005 to 2009 as Professor in the Department of History.
Over the course of his career, Brynn published twelve scholarly articles and two books on eighteenth and nineteenth century British and Irish history.