John Hale Stutesman jr (December 16, 1920 – June 9, 2019) was an American State Department official, who served as a consular at the American embassy in Shanghai during 1946, a political officer at the embassy in Tehran from 1949 to 1952, later he was posted to Paris, followed by NATO, DCM at the embassy in La Paz, Bolivia and U.S. general consul of Canada in 1974.
Stutesman fought in the Italian Campaign in the field artillery unit.
He was first assigned to the Far East where he served as a political officer and a council at the United States embassy in Shanghai.
He stayed in Shanghai until the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War.
[6] He died in San Francisco, California in June 2019 at the age of 98 and was buried in his hometown of Washington D.C.[7][8]