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Ambassador Ball was nominated to the United Nations post on 25 April 1968 and he took the oath of office on 24 June 1968. |
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Mr. Ball was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in January 1961. On 4 December 1961 he was sworn in as the Under Secretary of State and in that capacity was the second ranking official in the State Department until his resignation on 30 September 1966. |
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He is a lawyer and former senior partner of the investment banking firm of Lehman Brothers. |
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Mr. Ball was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on December |
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21, 1909. He attended Northwestern University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1930 and a Doctor of Laws degree in 1933. |
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He came to Washington directly from law school at the beginning of the New Deal in 1933 to work as an attorney in the Farm Credit Administration. From 1934 to 1935 he served in the Office of the General Counsel of the Treasury Department. |
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In 1935, Mr. Ball returned to the Midwest, practicing law in Chicago until 1942. During this period he practiced law with the late Adlai Stevenson who served as United States Representative at the United Nations from 1962 to 1965. After 1941, he again entered Government service in Washington and was appointed Associate General Counsel of the Lend-Lease Administration. In 1943 he became Associate General Counsel of the Foreign Economic Administration, of which the Lend-Lease Administration had become a part. |
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In 1944, Mr. Ball was appointed a civilian member of the Air Force Evaluation Board in Paris to study the effects of tactical operations in Europe. Shortly thereafter he was also appointed a Director of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey based in London. The survey was created to assess the economic, political and physical effects of the strategic air offensive against Germany. |
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Returning to Washington toward the end of 1945, Mr. Ball became a founding partner of a law firm which is now known as Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, with offices in New York, Washington, Paris and Brussels. |
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As a member of that firm, Mr. Ball, a specialist in international law and commercial relations, divided his time between Washington and Western Europe. |
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Mr. Ball is married to the former Ruth Murdoch of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They have two sons, John and Douglas. |
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Mr. Ball is the author of a recent book entitled, “The Discipline of Power”. |
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