GERARD, SUMNER
Buried: 4 Mar 2005
Lot 16554 Section 108

Sumner GERARD - U.S. Social Security Death Index
Birth: 25 Aug 1874 State Where Number was Issued: New York Death: Mar 1966

3. Sumner GERARD - U.S. Social Security Death Index
Birth: 15 Jul 1916 State Where Number was Issued: New York Death: 24 Feb 2005

Bio from Wikipedia:
Sumner Gerard Jr. MBE (July 15, 1916 – February 24, 2005) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat. Born in New York to a prominent family descended from Huguenots, Gerard attended Groton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps during World War II, he moved to Montana and became involved in business, including mining and ranching, and politics.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a member of both the Montana House of Representatives and the Montana Senate, serving as Republican minority leader in both. In 1974, President Richard Nixon appointed him United States Ambassador to Jamaica, a position he held through the administration of President Gerald Ford, leaving in 1977. He then moved to Florida, serving as an adjunct professor of marine archaeology at the University of Miami and sponsoring and participating in underwater archaeology expeditions. He died in 2005 in Vero Beach, Florida, aged 88∼Source: Montana Standard (Butte)

Sumner Gerard, a prominent Montana politician, died of natural causes Thursday at a hospital in Vero Beach, Fla., said his son, also named Sumner Gerard. He was 88.

Educated at Groton School and Cambridge University, Gerard moved from New York to Montana in 1949, operated ranches in the Dillon and Ennis areas, and had business interests in Billings and Bozeman. He was a Republican in the Montana Legislature from 1956-60 and 1962-66.

He moved to Montana in 1949 from New York, operated ranches near Dillon and Ennis and had business interests in Billings and Bozeman.

He was Madison County representative in the Montana Legislature 1956-1960 and senator 1962-1966, and was elected minority leader in both chambers.

He left Montana in 1969 to pursue a career as a diplomat and became a delegate to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

In 1970, Gerard was named mission director in Tunisia for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He was the U.S. ambassador to Jamaica from 1974-77, appointed by President Nixon.

President Nixon appointed him ambassador to Jamaica in 1974. He became adjunct professor of maritime archaeology in 1977 at the University of Miami.

Sumner was born in Melville, N.Y., attended Groton School in Massachusetts and graduated in law from Trinity College, Cambridge University.

During World War II, he served five years in multiple branches of the military in the Middle East, Washington, China and California. In 1942, he flew with Winston Churchill to Moscow to meet Joseph Stalin.

Survivors include a brother, half brother, four daughters, son, six grandchildren, former wife Teresa Dabrowska.

Louise Grosvenor, his first wife, who lived with him in Montana, died in 1987.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd St., New York. Memorials: Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Fla.; National Geographic Society; or a favorite Montana charity.

GERARD, SUMNER
Buried: 4 Mar 2005
Lot 16554 Section 108

Sumner GERARD - U.S. Social Security Death Index
Birth: 25 Aug 1874 State Where Number was Issued: New York Death: Mar 1966

3. Sumner GERARD - U.S. Social Security Death Index
Birth: 15 Jul 1916 State Where Number was Issued: New York Death: 24 Feb 2005

Bio from Wikipedia:
Sumner Gerard Jr. MBE (July 15, 1916 – February 24, 2005) was an American businessman, politician, and diplomat. Born in New York to a prominent family descended from Huguenots, Gerard attended Groton School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps during World War II, he moved to Montana and became involved in business, including mining and ranching, and politics.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a member of both the Montana House of Representatives and the Montana Senate, serving as Republican minority leader in both. In 1974, President Richard Nixon appointed him United States Ambassador to Jamaica, a position he held through the administration of President Gerald Ford, leaving in 1977. He then moved to Florida, serving as an adjunct professor of marine archaeology at the University of Miami and sponsoring and participating in underwater archaeology expeditions. He died in 2005 in Vero Beach, Florida, aged 88∼Source: Montana Standard (Butte)

Sumner Gerard, a prominent Montana politician, died of natural causes Thursday at a hospital in Vero Beach, Fla., said his son, also named Sumner Gerard. He was 88.

Educated at Groton School and Cambridge University, Gerard moved from New York to Montana in 1949, operated ranches in the Dillon and Ennis areas, and had business interests in Billings and Bozeman. He was a Republican in the Montana Legislature from 1956-60 and 1962-66.

He moved to Montana in 1949 from New York, operated ranches near Dillon and Ennis and had business interests in Billings and Bozeman.

He was Madison County representative in the Montana Legislature 1956-1960 and senator 1962-1966, and was elected minority leader in both chambers.

He left Montana in 1969 to pursue a career as a diplomat and became a delegate to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

In 1970, Gerard was named mission director in Tunisia for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He was the U.S. ambassador to Jamaica from 1974-77, appointed by President Nixon.

President Nixon appointed him ambassador to Jamaica in 1974. He became adjunct professor of maritime archaeology in 1977 at the University of Miami.

Sumner was born in Melville, N.Y., attended Groton School in Massachusetts and graduated in law from Trinity College, Cambridge University.

During World War II, he served five years in multiple branches of the military in the Middle East, Washington, China and California. In 1942, he flew with Winston Churchill to Moscow to meet Joseph Stalin.

Survivors include a brother, half brother, four daughters, son, six grandchildren, former wife Teresa Dabrowska.

Louise Grosvenor, his first wife, who lived with him in Montana, died in 1987.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Thomas Church, 1 West 53rd St., New York. Memorials: Smithsonian Marine Station, Fort Pierce, Fla.; National Geographic Society; or a favorite Montana charity.