Eugene Hoffman Dooman (March 25, 1890 – February 2, 1969) was a counselor at the United States Embassy in Tokyo during the critical negotiations between the two countries before World War II.
[4][5] Dooman joined the State Department in 1912 as a Student Interpreter after a competitive examination and spent more than thirty years in US government service.
Earlier that year (February 14) as US embassy counselor, he delivered Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ultimatum to the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, which warned that, if Japan attacked Singapore, it would mean war with the United States.
By the time of the crucial negotiations with Japan in the late 1930s, Dooman was Counselor of the Embassy, the number two to Ambassador Joseph C. Grew.
"[1] Interviewed in 1962 as part of Columbia University’s oral history project, his reminiscences about the Occupation of Japan have provided useful material for historians.