James Bruce Engle (April 16, 1919 – November 7, 2017)[1] was an American diplomat.
[2][3] Born in a sod hut in Billings, Montana,[4] James Engle was first in his class at Burlington Junior College in Iowa and went on to study at The University of Chicago.
He went on to attend the Harvard Business School, and went to Oxford University at Exeter College with a Rhodes Scholarship, as well as receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Instituto Italiano Studi Storici.
He also studied at Cambridge University with a Rockefeller Public Service Award.
[5] Following his retirement from the foreign service, James Engle moved to Peacham, Vermont, where he helped to found and served as the first president of Vermont Coverts,[6] an organization dedicated to informing landowners about the maintenance of wildlife habitats.