Background
He was born in New York in 1926 and studied International Relations at Yale, graduating in 1947 before being posted to the American Embassy in Berlin during the Cold War.
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Heyward Isham
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Yale University.
Career
From 1955 through 1957, he was chief of the consular section and political office at the United States Embassy in Moscow. From 1974 to 1977 after a posting in Hong Kong, Isham was the American Ambassador to Haiti. After his retirement from the diplomatic service he worked as an Editor with Doubleday publishers.
During this period he supervised the publication of the memoirs of Andrei A. Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister from 1957 to 1985, and other books by Russians.
Son Christopher Isham was named Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for Columbia Broadcasting System News in July 2007. Son Ralph Heyward Isham is a former Fellow with the United States. Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II treaty hearings.
He also served on the staffs of Congressman James West. Symington of Saint Louis, Missouri and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts. Daughter Sandra Isham died in 1996.
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June 18, 2009 (aged 82)