McCloy, John J(ay)

McCloy, John J(ay)

▪ American diplomat
born March 31, 1895, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.
died March 11, 1989, Stamford, Conn.
 American diplomat and lawyer. He was an adviser to every U.S. president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.

      McCloy graduated from Harvard Law School in 1921. Thereafter he practiced law on Wall Street. His work on the “Black Tom” case, in which he proved that German agents had caused an explosion at a munitions factory, attracted the attention of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who in 1941 persuaded President Roosevelt to appoint McCloy assistant secretary of war. In this capacity McCloy helped secure Congressional approval of the Lend-Lease Act and oversaw the internment of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans, a policy he continued to defend even as the U.S. government disavowed it in the 1980s. He was also later criticized for having opposed a plan to bomb the railroads leading to Auschwitz. McCloy was one of the few civilians aware of the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. His argument that the United States should issue a warning, hence an opportunity to surrender, to Japan was overruled.

      Between 1947 and 1949 McCloy was president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). From 1949 to 1952 he was high commissioner for Germany, in which capacity he created a civilian government and laid the groundwork for rebuilding West Germany's industry and commerce. From 1953 he was chairman of several corporations and foundations, including the Chase Manhattan Bank (1953–60) and the Ford Foundation (1958–65), and began his long association (1953–89, chairman 1953–70) with the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1961, as President John F. Kennedy's principal arms adviser, he negotiated terms for the resumption of East-West disarmament talks and drafted the bill that led to the establishment of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was a member of the Warren Commission appointed in 1963 to investigate Kennedy's assassination. He continued to serve as an adviser on foreign affairs until shortly before his death.

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