He was a non-career appointee who served concurrent appointments as the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Grenada and Barbados from 1974 until 1977.
He left high school and joined the US Marine Corps in January 1944, fighting in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.
Soon after he was recalled to serve in the Korean War and later returned to NYU and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Banking and Finance.
Ambassador to Barbados and Grenada and as the U. S. Special Representative to Antigua, Dominica, St. Christopher-Nevis, Anguilla, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines on November 17, 1974.
[3] Britton was not expected “to take his job for more than it was - a political plum appointment by President Ford of a black Republican for services rendered.” But it did not work out so well.