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Robert Helyer ThayerVeteran
- Birth
- Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
- Death
- 26 Jan 1984 (aged 82)Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- Burial
- Southborough,Worcester County,Massachusetts,USAShow MapGPS-Latitude: 42.3005472, Longitude: -71.52945
- Plot
- Section 1B Lot S
- Memorial ID
- 18081555View Source
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Thayer, Robert Helyer (1901-1984) — Born September 22, 1901. U.S. Minister to Romania, 1955.
Robert Helyer Thayer (22 September 1901 - 26 January 1984) was an American lawyer, naval officer and diplomat.
Early life
Thayer was born in Southborough, Massachusetts. He studied for degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University.
Legal career
Thayer practiced law in New York City under Gen William Joseph Donovan.
Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Col. Henry S. Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, NJ, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for this crime in 1936.
Naval career
During World War II, Thayer was commissioned in the US Navy. He was an intelligence officer in the South Pacific early in the war and then went to Europe, where he took part in the invasions of Normandy and southern France. He returned to the Pacific in time for the invasion of the Philippines.
Diplomatic career
In 1945, he was an assistant to John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the United Nations at San Francisco.
In 1950, he began his formal career in diplomacy, as an assistant to the US Ambassador to France. From 1955 endash 1958, US minister to Romania and then went to the State Department as assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs.
Later life
Thayer was appointed a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1966 and was vice-chairman from 1975 - 1977.
He died in Washington DC on 26 January, 1984 of leukemia.
Personal life
He married Virginia Pratt (1905 - 1979) in 1926. She was the daughter of lawyer, financier and philanthropist John Teele Pratt and Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt.
They had three children:
1. Robert H. Thayer, Jr.
2. Stephen Badger Thayer
3. Sally Sears Thayer
Thayer, Robert Helyer (1901-1984) — Born September 22, 1901. U.S. Minister to Romania, 1955.
Robert Helyer Thayer (22 September 1901 - 26 January 1984) was an American lawyer, naval officer and diplomat.
Early life
Thayer was born in Southborough, Massachusetts. He studied for degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University.
Legal career
Thayer practiced law in New York City under Gen William Joseph Donovan.
Thayer assisted Charles Lindbergh's lead lawyer, Col. Henry S. Breckinridge on the famous Lindbergh kidnapping case in 1932, staying at the Charles A Lindbergh residence in Hopewell, NJ, until the body of the child was found on 12 May 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for this crime in 1936.
Naval career
During World War II, Thayer was commissioned in the US Navy. He was an intelligence officer in the South Pacific early in the war and then went to Europe, where he took part in the invasions of Normandy and southern France. He returned to the Pacific in time for the invasion of the Philippines.
Diplomatic career
In 1945, he was an assistant to John Foster Dulles, who became secretary of state in the Eisenhower administration, at the organizing conference of the United Nations at San Francisco.
In 1950, he began his formal career in diplomacy, as an assistant to the US Ambassador to France. From 1955 endash 1958, US minister to Romania and then went to the State Department as assistant secretary for educational and cultural affairs.
Later life
Thayer was appointed a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1966 and was vice-chairman from 1975 - 1977.
He died in Washington DC on 26 January, 1984 of leukemia.
Personal life
He married Virginia Pratt (1905 - 1979) in 1926. She was the daughter of lawyer, financier and philanthropist John Teele Pratt and Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt.
They had three children:
1. Robert H. Thayer, Jr.
2. Stephen Badger Thayer
3. Sally Sears Thayer
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- Created by:Marc Thayer, III
- Added: Feb 26, 2007
- Find a Grave Memorial ID:
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18081555/robert_helyer-thayer: accessed), memorial page for Robert Helyer Thayer (22 Sep 1901–26 Jan 1984), Find a Grave Memorial ID18081555, citing Southborough Rural Cemetery, Southborough,Worcester County,Massachusetts,USA;Maintained by Marc Thayer, III (contributor46542959).
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