Robin Chandler Duke
| Robin Chandler Duke | |
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| United States Ambassador to Norway | |
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In office September 12, 2000 – March 1, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Hermelin |
| Succeeded by | John D. Ong |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Grace Esther Tippett October 13, 1923 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 2016 (aged 92) Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) |
Jeffrey Lynn (m. 1946; div. 1958) Angier Biddle Duke (m. 1962; d. 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
Robin Chandler Duke (October 13, 1923 – February 6, 2016) was an American socialite, women's reproductive rights advocate and diplomat. She was the United States Ambassador to Norway from 2000 to 2001.
Born Grace Esther Tippett in Baltimore, Maryland, she was the daughter of Richard Edgar and Esther Chandler Tippett. Robin was a childhood nickname that she continued to use throughout her life. After her parents separated, she got modeling jobs at Lord & Taylor and elsewhere to help support her mother and sister.
She began her journalism career in 1944 as a writer for the women's page of the New York Journal-American using the byline Robin Chandler.
Later, after marrying actor Jeffrey Lynn, with whom she had two children, she found work at NBC-affiliate WCAU-TV in Philadelphia as a news reader. In 1952 she became an anchor-reporter with Dave Garroway, and covered national political conventions and the marriage of Jacqueline Bouvier to John F. Kennedy in 1953.
She was a broker at Orvis Brothers from 1953 to 1958. She was then vice-president for public relations at Pepsi-Cola until 1962.
In 1962 she married Angier Biddle Duke, son of Angier Buchanan Duke, heir to part of the American Tobacco Company fortune. Angier Biddle Duke was chief of protocol for the U.S. Department of State under President John F. Kennedy. The couple had one son, Angier Biddle Duke, Jr. After the assassination of President Kennedy, Angier Biddle Duke became Lyndon B. Johnson's chief of staff, and ambassador to Denmark, Spain and Morocco. Angier Biddle Duke died in 1995.
Chandler Duke was active in organizations relating to women's rights, family planning, and population studies. In addition to serving as national co-chairwoman of the Population Crisis Committee/Draper Fund, which financed International Planned Parenthood, she was a founder of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities; chairwoman of Population Action International; president and later chairwoman of the National Abortion Rights Action League; and president of Naral Pro-Choice America.
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