Edson Oliver Sessions

Background

Sessions, Edson Oliver was born on November 5, 1902 in Toledo. Son of Edson Oliver and Helen (Potter) Sessions.

Education

Student, Chicago Latin School. Bachelor of Science, Harvard University, 1925.

Career

Vice president charge construction E.O. Sessions Limited company, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Portland, 1925-1930. Chief industrial engineer Bendix Aviation corporation, South Bend, Indiana, 1930-1932. Management consultant J.O. McKinsey & Company, Chicago, New York City, 1932-1934.

President Sessions Engineering Company, Chicago, management consultant architects and engineers, 1934-1954, consultant, 1955-1957. Consultant Army Ordnance Department, New York and Chicago districts, 1943-1945. Special studies China industralization program Chinese Nationalist Government, 1943.

Director United States Operations Mission Foreign Operations Administration, Bangkok, Thailand, 1954-1955. Leader special study group economic and political problems in Cambodia and Laos, State Department-International Cooperation Administration, 1956. President E.O. Sessions Company of Florida, 1955-1957.

President, director Root-Lowell Manufacturing Company, Chicago. Managing director various industrial firms. United States deputy postmaster general, 1957-1959.

Ambassador to Finland, 1959-1960. President E.O. Sessions Company, California, 1960-1967. Assistant administrator Vietnam, Agency for International Development, 1967-1968.

Ambassador to Ecuador, Quito, 1967-1970.

Achievements

• Edson Oliver Sessions has been listed as a noteworthy United States ambassador, corporation executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Frances Cox, April 10, 1937. Children: William, Michael.

Father:

Edson Oliver Sessions

Mother:

Helen (Potter) Sessions

Spouse:

Frances Cox

child:

William Sessions

child:

Michael Sessions