Background
Linder, Harold F. was born on September 13, 1900 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Florence (Strauss) Linder.
Linder, Harold F. was born on September 13, 1900 in Brooklyn. Son of William and Florence (Strauss) Linder.
Manufacturing positions, 191-25; co-founder, Cornell, Linder & Company, industrial management and reorgns., 1925-1933; partner, Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Company, security and commodity brokerage, banking, 1933-1938; president, General American Investors Company, Inc., 1948-1955; deputy assistant secretary of state for economics affairs, Department State, Washington, 1951; assistant secretary, Department State, Washington, 1952-1953; president, chairman, Export-Import Bank, Washington, 1961-1968; United States ambassador to Canada, Ottawa, 1968-1969. Board directors various corporations, 1938-1961. Consultant International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, 1970-1976.
Extensively engaged in philanthropic work, 1938-1942, 45-48. Trustee Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1949-1981, Chairman of the Board, 1969-1972, emeritus, 1972-1981. Member board overseers faculty arts and science, University of Pennsylvania.
Member of advisory county faculty international affairs, Columbia University. Member Council Sch.Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University, Washington. Member finance committee Smithsonian Institution Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945.
Member Council Foreign Relations, American Association for the Advancement of Science (finance committee), Cosmos Club (Washington), Recess Club (New York City), Century Association, White's Club (London).
Married Bertha Rubin, October 5, 1920. Children: Prudence Linder Steiner, Susan.