John Fife Symington Jr. (August 27, 1910 – December 9, 2007) was an American diplomat who served as United States ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and an airline pioneer.
[1] During the Great Depression, he borrowed and traveled on Pan American to Miami, San Juan, Trinidad, and South America.
When he returned from Brazil, he was given the job of traffic manager when Pan Am opened a terminal on Colgate Creek near Dundalk in 1937.
During his time as ambassador he had to deal with a political crisis when the military attempted a coup against prime minister Eric Williams.
Symington died on December 9, 2007, at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care in Baltimore, Maryland, due to complications of old age.