Edward William Mulcahy (June 15, 1921 – March 12, 2006) was an American diplomat and captain in the United States Marine Corps.

By the end of the war, Mulcahy had received the Silver Star award for his actions in Guam[2] and two Purple Hearts.

In 1946, Mulcahy attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, and received a master's degree from there in 1947.

In 1953, Mulcahy worked on a variety of assignments in the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. until he became a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece.

He was an excellent linguist, and spoke German, French, Italian, Latin, Swahili and Greek as foreign languages.

During his retirement years, he also taught himself modern Irish In 1997 Mulcahy was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and in September 2000, he and his wife took up residence at the Westminster-Canterbury in Winchester, Virginia, where they remained until the end of their lives.

He was buried on April 4, 2006, at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, provided by the United States Marine Corps.

His last surviving sibling, his youngest sister, Elizabeth (Betty) Mulcahy McKeon, was buried on June 24, 2020, in Nashua, NH..[5] This article incorporates public domain material from U.S.