Wiley T. Buchanan

Wiley Thomas Buchanan, Jr. (January 4, 1913 – February 16, 1986) was an American diplomat and author who served as the Chief of Protocol of the United States and the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria. in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas. He was the son of Wiley Thomas Buchanan (1880–1953) and Lilla (née Youngblood) Buchanan (1885–1975). Along with his siblings, which included Ava Nell Buchanan Inglish, Kathleen Millie Buchanan Tennison, and Avon Arnold Buchanan,

Buchanan attended the Terrill School in Dallas, then Southern Methodist University, also in Texas, and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In 1959, The Washington Post described Buchanan as follows: and contributed to his campaign for president. Upon Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency, Buchanan was succeeded by Milton A. Wolf, a former investment banker and real estate developer from Cleveland, Ohio.

In Washington, he was a member of the Federal City Council, L'Enfant Plaza Corporation, and the National Symphony, of which he sat on the board for the last two. He was a trustee of his alma mater, George Washington University, and the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Ruth was the niece of architect Alden B. Dow, and the granddaughter of Grace and Herbert Henry Dow, the founder of Dow Chemical. Together, they were the parents of:

Bonnie Ruth Buchanan (b. ), Diane Dow Buchanan (b. 1944), who married shipping magnate and art collector John Traina in 1965, The Trainas divorced and she later married Al Wilsey, who had recently divorced Patricia Montandon. Wiley Thomas Buchanan III (b. )

In Washington D.C., they lived at Underoak on Nebraska Avenue Northwest. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Descendants Through his daughter Bonnie, he was the grandfather of sculptor Lilla Youngblood Matheson (namesake of Buchanan's mother), who married Christopher Finley Ohrstrom, a real-estate investor and the son of Mary, Viscountess Rothermere (widow of Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere) and Ricard Riggs Ohrstrom, in 1987. In 1993, they lived in Strasbourg, France. and Trevor Traina, who served as Ambassador to Austria from 2018 to 2021.