Background
Dillon, Robert Sherwood was born on January 7, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Dale Crowell and Viola May (Sherwood)Dillon.
Dillon, Robert Sherwood was born on January 7, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Dale Crowell and Viola May (Sherwood)Dillon.
Bachelor, Duke University, 1951. Postgraduate, Princeton University, 1959.
Dillon served in the United States army for eighteen months before being discharged and continuing his education at Duke University. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1951, he served as a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence officer with Chinese Nationalist irregular forces. Following his time in the Central Intelligence Agency, he joined the Foreign Service.
Dillon spent more than 30 years in the Foreign Service with assignments including Venezuela, Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt, Lebanon.
He served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Malaysia, Turkey and Egypt and oversaw the negotiations and security of hostages during The Kuala Lumpur Hostage Crisis. Dillon served as United States Ambassador to Lebanon for two years, surviving the 1983 United States embassy bombing, before retiring from the foreign service in 1983 with the rank of Career Minister.
After his time in the Foreign Service, Dillon joined the United Nations as Assistant Secretary General and later served for five years as Deputy Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. In 1988, Dillon became President and Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit, America-Mideast Education and Training Services, Incorporated., which he left in 1995.
From 1994-1995, Dillon worked for the United Nations as Special Humanitarian Envoy for Rwanda and Burundi.
After which he worked as for six months with the Department of State. Dillon Currently resides in Arlington Virginia and has authored a memoir and biography of his father, Dale Crowell Dillon.
Corporal United States Army, 1947-1948.
Married Caroline Sue Burch, June 16, 1951. Children: Dale, Robert Junior, John, Elizabeth, Thomas.