Background
Jova, Joseph John was born on November 7, 1916 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Luis and Maria Josefa (Gonzalez-Cavada) Jova.
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Jova, Joseph John was born on November 7, 1916 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of Joseph Luis and Maria Josefa (Gonzalez-Cavada) Jova.
AB, Dartmouth, 1938; Graduate senior seminar on foreign policy, Foreign Service Institute, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount St. Mary College, 1973. Doctor of Laws, Dowling College, 1973.
With Guatemala division United Fruit Company, 1938-1941. Foreign service officer Department State, 1947-1977. Vice consul Basra, 1947-1949.
2d secretary, vice consul Tangier, 1949-1952. Consul Oporto, 1952-1954. 1st secretary Lisbon, 1954-1957.
Officer-in-charge French-Iberian affairs, 1957-1958, assistant chief personnel, 1959-1960, chief personnel operations division, 1960-1961. Deputy chief of mission Santiago, Chile, 1961-1965. Ambassador to Honduras Tegucigalpa, 1965-1969.
Ambassador to Organization of American States Washington, 1969-1974. Ambassador to Mexico, 1974-1977. President Meridian House International, 1977-1989.
President emeritus, 1989-1993. Chairman Department State Management Reform Task Force, United States delegations to Inter-American Council on Education, Science and Culture at Panama, 1972, Mar del Plata, 1973, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American, Santiago, 1971, United Nations Economic Commission Latin American Population Conference, Mexico, 1974. Vice chairman United States delegate to general assembly Organization of American States, 1970, 71, 72, 73, chairman Inter-American committee culture, 1983-1988.
Board directors First American Bank of Washington.
Trustee Mount St. Mary's College, Pan-American Development Foundation, president, 1989-1993. Trustee Friends of Organization of American States Museum of Latin American Art, vice president, 1986-1993, Textile Museum, Georgetown University Library. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1947.
Member Mexican Academy International Law (president American chapter), United States Foreign Service Association, Center Inter-American Relations, Institute Hispanic Culture of Spain, Asociacion de Hidalgos a Fuero de España, National Hispanic Quincentennial Commission Society, Sulgrave, International Club of Washington, Chapultepec Golf, Dacor House, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Married Pamela Johnson, February 9, 1949. Children: Henry Christopher, John Thomas, Margaret Ynes Grunberg.