C. Douglas Dillon
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Clarence Douglas Dillon (born Clarence Douglass Dillon in Geneva
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, August 21, 1909 – New York City
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, New York
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, January 10, 2003) was an American
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 diplomat
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 and politician
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, who served as U.S. Ambassador to France (1953–1957) and as the 57th Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury
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 (1961–1965). He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm
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) during the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Although Dillon grew up as a patrician, his paternal grandfather, Samuel Lapowski, was a poor Jewish immigrant from Poland
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