Walworth Barbour

Walworth "Wally" Barbour (June 4, 1908 – July 21, 1982) was the United States Ambassador to Israel from 1961 to 1973.

He was considered as a diplomat who was sensitive to the needs of Israel. At a dinner in his honor, Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir said about Barbour "There's no big deal in having an Israel-American friendship society when you have friends like Nixon in the White House and Wally in Israel."

Barbour also arrived at a time of extreme US sensitivity over Israel's burgeoning nuclear weapons development at Dimona in the Negev desert.

He was also a diplomat in Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Iraq and Egypt, and in the early 1950s he was counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He retired from the Foreign Service after he left Israel in 1973.

US Ambassador to Israel (1961–73) US State Department Deputy Chief of Mission, London, England (1955–60) US State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (1954–55) US State Department Consul, Moscow, USSR (1949–51) US State Department Chief, Division of South European Affairs (1947–49) US State Department Assistant Chief, Division of South European Affairs (1945–46) US State Department Second Secretary-Vice Consul, Athens, Greece (1944–45) US State Department Second Secretary, near Govts. in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia at Cairo (1943–44) US State Department Second Secretary-Vice Consul, Cairo, Egypt(1942–43) US State Department Third Secretary-Vice Consul, Sofia, Italy (1939–41) US State Department Third Secretary-Vice Consul, Baghdad (1936–39) US State Department Vice Consul, Athens, Greece (1933–36) US State Department Vice Consul, Naples, Italy (1931–32)