Maurice M. Bernbaum

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Maurice Marshall Bernbaum (1910–March 8, 2008) was an American diplomat who served as ambassador to Ecuador (1960–1965) and to Venezuela (1965–1969). He graduated from Harvard in 1931 and passed the Foreign Service exam in 1936, becoming Vice Consul in Vancouver that year. In Ecuador, President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy was toppled in a 1963 military coup after criticizing the United States and insulting Bernbaum. His wife, Betty Hahn Bernbaum, was an amateur radio operator and philanthropist known for emergency relief work after the 1949 Ambato earthquake and the 1967 Caracas earthquake.