Robert A. Hurwitch (October 15, 1920 – July 16, 1997) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1973 to 1978.
[1][2] In 1979, Hurwitch pleaded guilty to "illegally using about $17,000 worth of embassy labor and supplies to build a swimming pool and prepare a retirement home for himself outside Santo Domingo."
He was sentenced to two years' unsupervised probation.
[3] Hurwitch graduated from the University of Chicago.
He died of lung cancer on July 16, 1997, in Scituate, Massachusetts at age 76.