William Avery Crawford (January 14, 1915 – December 14, 2001) was an American diplomat who served as the last Minister and first United States Ambassador to Romania, from 1962 to 1965.
Crawford joined the United States Foreign Service in 1941, serving in Moscow, Paris, Havana, and Prague.
[9] During this time, he helped to support Romania-United States relations in the fields of trade and cultural exchange.
[6] He then taught at the Landon School, worked at a marketing company,[6] finished his memoirs, and contributed to a biography on his mother.
[11] Crawford was married twice: first to Barbara Gardner, from October 19, 1940,[12] till her death in September 1979;[13] and then to Gudrun Hadell.