Dwight Dickinson

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Dwight Dickinson III (December 13, 1916 – September 24, 1997) was an American diplomat and Navy veteran who served as the United States ambassador to Togo from 1970 to 1974. He was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and graduated from Harvard College in 1940. He joined the Navy in 1941 and served during World War II on the battleship Idaho and later on the cruiser Augusta, which carried President Truman home after the Potsdam Conference. He left the Navy as a lieutenant commander in the Supply Corps in 1946 and joined the Foreign Service, with postings in Curaçao, Mexico City, Beirut, Paris, and Washington, plus assignments with the United Nations in 1960 and 1962 as a political adviser and alternate representative to the U.N. Trusteeship Council. He was Chargé d'Affaires in Morocco before becoming ambassador to Togo in 1970. Dickinson retired from the Foreign Service in 1974 and lived in Jamestown, Rhode Island. He and his wife Eleanor Anderson Hoge had two sons, Spencer Edward II and Philip Lloyd. He died in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1997 from Parkinson's disease and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.