Walter Cecil Dowling (August 4, 1905 – July 1, 1977) was the United States Ambassador to West Germany from 1959–1963 and the US Ambassador to South Korea from 1956-1959.
Dowling was born in Atkinson County, Georgia.
[1] He received a bachelor's degree from Mercer University in 1925.
Picked by President Dwight Eisenhower to become Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs,[1] he was confirmed by the Senate,[2] but diverted to Bonn,[3] where he served as United States Ambassador to West Germany up to[4] and through the Berlin Crisis of 1961.
[8] After he left the State Department, he became Director-General of the Atlantic Institute, before returning to Mercer University and teaching political science.