Turner Blair Shelton

Background

Shelton, Turner Blair was born on December 3, 1915 in Louisa County, Virginia, United States. Son of David Rice and Lillie Blanche (Gibson) Shelton.

Education

Student, University Virginia, 1932-1934, 36-40; student, University Richmond, 1935-1936.

Career

With, Loew's, Inc., Washington, 1941-1942; assistant to director, Treasury Department, Washington, 1942-1946; assistant to executive producer, Monogram Studios, Hollywood, California, 1946-1947; producer, Eagle Lions Studios, Hollywood, 1948-1949; associate producer motion picture, T-Men Executive Warner Brothers Studios, 1949-1951; consultant, State Department, 1951-1954; deputy assistant director, United States.I.A., 1954-1955; assistant director, United States.I.A., 1955-1961; special assistant, Soviet and Eastern European Exchanges Staff, Bureau European Affairs, 1961; counselor of legation, Budapest, Hungary, 1962-1964; special assistant to assistant secretary state, Washington, 1964-1966; consul general, Nassau, The Bahamas, 1966-1970; United States ambassador to, Nicaragua, 1970-1975; Department State adviser to, President, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, since 1976. Delegate meeting on post-war financing, Paris, France, 1945, negotiator for State Department portion of science, technical, educational and cultural exchange agreement with United States and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1958, member United States delegate which negotiated newagreement with Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1959, which negotiated cultural agreement with Rumania, 1960.

Achievements

• Turner Blair Shelton has been listed as a noteworthy Diplomat by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Motion Picture Academy Arts and Sciences M C.

Connections

Married Lesly Starr, September 23, 1951.

Father:

David Rice Shelton

Mother:

Lillie Blanche (Gibson) Shelton

Spouse:

Lesly Starr