David K. E. Bruce
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His Excellency David K. E. Bruce |
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| 10th United States Ambassador to NATO | |
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In office October 17, 1974 – February 12, 1976 |
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| Appointed by |
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Donald Rumsfeld |
| Succeeded by | Robert Strausz-Hupé |
| Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China | |
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In office May 14, 1973 – September 25, 1974 |
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| President |
Richard Nixon Gerald Ford |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | George H. W. Bush |
| United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office March 17, 1961 – March 20, 1969 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| President |
John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Sir Alec Douglas-Home Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | John Hay Whitney |
| Succeeded by | Walter Annenberg |
| United States Ambassador to Germany | |
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In office April 17, 1957 – October 29, 1959 |
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| President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | James B. Conant |
| Succeeded by | Walter C. Dowling |
| United States Ambassador to France | |
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In office May 17, 1949 – March 10, 1952 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Jefferson Caffery |
| Succeeded by | James Clement Dunn |
| Under Secretary of State | |
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In office 1952–1953 |
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| Preceded by | James E. Webb |
| Succeeded by | Walter B. Smith |
| Personal details | |
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David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce February 12, 1898 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | December 5, 1977 (aged 79) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Spouse(s) |
Ailsa Mellon (m. 1926; divorce 1945) Evangeline Bell (1914-1995) (m. 1945; his death 1977) |
| Education | University of Maryland Law School |
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (February 12, 1898 – December 5, 1977) was an American diplomat, intelligence officer and politician. He served as Ambassador to France, the Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom, the only American to be all three.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, his father was William Cabell Bruce. Following a year and a half at Princeton University, Bruce dropped out to serve in the United States Army during World War I. At parental insistence, he then attended the University of Virginia School of Law (1919-1920) and the University of Maryland School of Law (1920-1921) without taking a degree before being admitted to the Maryland bar in November 1921. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates (1924-1926) and the Virginia House of Delegates (1939-1942).
On May 29, 1926, Bruce married Ailsa Mellon, the daughter of the banker and diplomat Andrew W. Mellon. They divorced on April 20, 1945. Their only daughter, Audrey, and her husband, Stephen Currier, were presumed dead when a plane in which they were flying in the Caribbean disappeared on January 17, 1967, after requesting permission to fly over Culebra, a U. S. Navy installation. No trace of the plane, pilot, or passengers was ever found. Audrey and Stephen Currier left three children: Andrea, Lavinia, and Michael.
Bruce married Evangeline Bell (1914–1995) on April 23, 1945, three days after his divorce. They had two sons and one daughter, Alexandra (called Sasha). Alexandra died under mysterious circumstances (possibly murder or suicide) in 1975 at age 29 at the Bruce family home in Virginia.
During World War II, he headed the Europe branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which was based in London and coordinated espionage activities behind enemy lines for the United States Armed Forces branches. Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning. He observed the invasion of Normandy landing there the day after the initial invasion.
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