Emmerson, John K.

Biographical Note

• 1908, March 17: Born, Canon City, Colorado
• 1929: B.A., Colorado College
• 1930: M.A., New York University
• 1930 - 1931 : Teacher of social science, University of Nebraska
• 1934: Married Dorothy McLaughlin
• 1935 - 1941 : Foreign Service Officer, Japan
• 1943 - 1945 : Political Adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, China-Burma-India Theater
• 1944: American emissary to Chinese Communists in Yenan
• 1945: Political Adviser to General Douglas MacArthur
• 1952 - 1955 : Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Karachi, Pakistan
• 1955 - 1957 : Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Beirut, Lebanon
• 1957 - 1958 : Political Counselor, Paris
• 1958 - 1962 : Consul General, Lagos, Nigeria; Salisbury, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
• 1962 - 1966 : Counselor Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, Japan
• 1966 - 1967 : State Department Diplomat in Residence, Stanford University
• 1968: Retired from the Foreign Service
• 1968 - 1984 : Senior research fellow, Hoover Institution and research associate, Northeast Asia-U.S. Policy Forum, Stanford University
• 1971: Author, Arms, Yen and Power: The Japanese Dilemma
• 1973: Co-author, with Leonard A. Humphreys, Will Japan Rearm?
• 1978: Author, The Japanese Thread: A Life in the U.S. Foreign Service
• 1979: Author, A View From Yenan
• 1984, March 24: Died, Palo Alto, California

From the guide to the John K. Emmerson Papers, 1931-1984, (Hoover Institution Archives)