Warren Randolph Burgess (May 7, 1889 – September 16, 1978)[1] was an American banker and diplomat who served as the U.S.
[2] Burgess was born in Newport, Rhode Island (where his father was teaching at the Rogers High School) and grew up in the Chicago, Illinois, area.
[7] He was elected President of the American Bankers Association and served in that role until 1945, when he was succeeded by Frank C. Rathje.
[6] In 1957, Eisenhower appointed Burgess to succeed George Walbridge Perkins, Jr. as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and he served in this role until 1961 when John F. Kennedy was elected President and appointed Thomas K. Finletter as his replacement.
Together, they were the parents of two sons:[6] After the death of his first wife and while he was serving as the Undersecretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs, he married Helen Morgan Hamilton (1896–1985), granddaughter of banker J.P. Morgan and widow of Arthur Hale Woods on March 5, 1955.