Background
Young, Philip was born on May 9, 1910 in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Owen D. and Josephine Sheldon (Edmonds) Young.
Young, Philip was born on May 9, 1910 in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Owen D. and Josephine Sheldon (Edmonds) Young.
Graduate, Choate School, 1927. AB, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1931. Doctor of Laws, St. Lawrence University, 1948.
Master of Business Administration, Harvard, 1933.
Research assistant business history, Harvard Graduate School Business, 1933;
business economist and analyst, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934-1938;
special assistant to under secretary treasury, 1938-1940;
assistant to secretary, also chairman President's liason committee military procurement, 1940-1941;
assistant Executive officer division defense aid reports, Office Emergency Management, 1941;
deputy administrator, Office Lend-Lease Administration, 1941-1943;
assistant to administrator, trade relations adviser, Foreign Economics Administration, 1943-1944;
vice president, Astraco Inc.
treasurer, Van Lear Woodward & Company Inc., 1947-1948;
dean, Columbia University Graduate School Business, 1948-1953;
executive director, American Assembly, 1950-1953;
Class C director, Federal Reserve Bank New York, 1950-1953;
chairman United States Civil Svc. Commission, presidential adviser on personnel management, member White House staff, 1953-1957;
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Netherlands, 1957-1961;
member, United States of America/B.I.A.C. to Organization of European Cooperation and Development, 1962-1968;
president United States county, International Chamber of Commerce Inc., 1961-1965
trustee, International Chamber of Commerce Inc., 1965-1968. Member of advisory board International and Comparatice Law Center, S.W. Legal Foundation, 1963-1967.
Trustee Equitable Life Assurance Society United States, 1951-1953.
Trustee emeritus St. Lawrence University, 1943-1987, Business History Foundation, 1949-1953, Edison Institute, 1950-1953. Trustee Choate School, 1950-1954. President Netherland American Foundation, 1963-1968, Chairman of the Board, 1968-1987.
Board directors Project Hope,1962-1987. Member county American Museum in Britain, 1974-1987. Served to Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, 1944-1946.
Member of New York State History Association (trustee), Harvard Club (New York City), Metropolitan Club (Washington).
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Married Faith Adams, August 15, 1931 (deceased January 1963). Children: Faith (Mistress William D. Carmichael), Shirley (Mistress Walter E. Adams). Married Esther Sarah Whitmey (Lady Fairey), February 14, 1964 (deceased July 1978).