Background
Summers, Lionel Morgan was born on November 20, 1905 in Madrid, Spain. Son of Thomas Maddin and Natalia (Gorainoff) Summers.
Summers, Lionel Morgan was born on November 20, 1905 in Madrid, Spain. Son of Thomas Maddin and Natalia (Gorainoff) Summers.
Bachelor of Science, Princeton, 1927. Juris Doctor, George Washington Law School, 1930. Special courses (American Field Service fellow) Academie de droit international, The Hague, 1930, Institut des hautes etudes Internationales, Paris, 1930-1931.
Research commission on Latin American, Columbia, 1930. Staff Law Library of Congress, 1931-1933. With Burlingame, Nourse & Pettit, 1933-1934.
Attorney on American Agency, General Claims Arbitration, United States-Mexico, 1934-1936.
Legal division R.E.A. (later merged with Office of Solicitor of Department Agriculture), 1936-1943. Appointed Department State, 1943, to Foreign Service, 1947, legal adviser to American embassy, Rome, 1947-1952, agent of the United States before Italian-United States Conciliation Commission, 1949-1952.
Foreign service officer, 1952-1962, counselor of legation, Tripoli and Benghazi, 1952-1954. Consul general Yokohama, 1955-1959.
Counselor of embassy, Tokyo, Japan, 1959-1960.
United States member United States-Japanese Property Commission, 1957-1960. Dean School Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service Institute, 1960-1962. Associate professor political science Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, from 1962.
Admitted to District of Columbia Bar.
Member United States-Japanese Property Commission Member American Society International
Married Lucy O’Bryan Bailey, March 22, 1930. Children: Lucy Bailey, Natalia.