George Walbridge Perkins Jr.

George Walbridge Perkins II (May 2, 1895 – January 11, 1960) was an American diplomat .He served as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1949 to 1953 and as United States Permanent Representative to NATO from 1955 to 1957.

He graduated from Princeton in 1917, where he worked to abolish eating clubs.

[2] and In 1925, his son George Walbridge Perkins III (1925–2008) was born.

[4] In 1950, he successfully persuaded Congress to assist Josip Broz Tito in his defiance of the Stalin regime.

Perkins died of a heart attack in Manhattan on January 11, 1960.