Thomas F. Stroock (October 10, 1925 – December 13, 2009) was an American businessman, ambassador, and a Republican politician from Casper, Wyoming.
[1] Born in New York City, Stroock attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, alongside future U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush.
After graduation, he served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and then relocated to Wyoming, where he devoted his remaining years.
He was brought to Casper, Wyoming in 1949 by his current employer, the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company.
He also had to handle the case of the American nun Dianna Ortiz, who had been abducted, raped, and tortured by the Guatemalan military, with possible complicity of the United States, and whose account he was unwilling to accept.