Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.
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| Executive Director of UNICEF | |
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In office June 1965 – January 1980 |
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| Secretary General |
U Thant Kurt Waldheim |
| Preceded by | Maurice Pate |
| Succeeded by | Jim Grant |
| United States Ambassador to Greece | |
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In office March 7, 1962 – May 8, 1965 |
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| President |
John Kennedy Lyndon Johnson |
| Preceded by | Ellis O. Briggs |
| Succeeded by | Phillips Talbot |
| Director of the UNRWA | |
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In office June 1954 – June 1958 |
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| Secretary General | Dag Hammarskjöld |
| Preceded by | John Blandford Jr. |
| Succeeded by | John Davis |
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February 11, 1904 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, 1987 (aged 83) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Scriven Clark (1935–1945) Ève Curie (1954–1987) |
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Princeton University (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize |
 Labouisse receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF
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State Department employee Labouisse working at his desk, Life Magazine
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Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. (February 11, 1904 – March 25, 1987) was an American diplomat and statesman. He was the third Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 1958. He was the director of the United Nations Children's Fund for years (1965–1979). He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A lawyer, he was United States Ambassador to France 1952–1954, as well as U.S. United States Ambassador to Greece 1962–1965. Labouisse had been the principal United States Department of State official dealing with the implementation of the Marshall Plan.
He was born to Henry Richardson Labouisse, Sr., and Frances Devereux (Huger) Labouisse, a granddaughter of Leonidas Polk, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Elizabeth Scriven Clark on June 29, 1935. He married Ève Curie in 1954, nine years after Elizabeth died. The marriage with Ève made him the son-in-law of Marie and Pierre Curie, the Nobel Prize winners. In 1965, he accepted on behalf of UNICEF the Nobel Prize for Peace and became one of the five Nobel Prize winners of the Curie family.
There is a prize in his honor established at Princeton University, his alma mater, which is given to a graduating senior each year.
Henry Richardson Labouisse was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 11, 1904. He was the youngest of three sons of Henry R. Labouisse, Sr., and Frances D. (Huger) Labouisse. He married Elizabeth Scriven Clark (the daughter of art collector and philanthropist Stephen Carlton Clark) on June 29, 1935; they had one daughter, Anne (Farnsworth), who married publisher Marty Peretz. Elizabeth Clark Labouisse died in 1945.
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