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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 27, 1965 
Office of the White Howe Press Secretary 
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THE \A/HITE HOUSE 
President Johnson announced today his intention to nominate Angier Biddle 
Duke, as United States Ambassador to Spain. He will succeed Ambassador 
Robert F. Vvoodward, who will resign. 
Ambassador Duke was born in New York City in 1915. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Yale University. He received the honorary degree of LL. D from Ion8. College in 1957. In 
World War II he enlisted as a private and served with the United States Air Force in Europe, rising to the rank of Major. He was President of 
Duke International Corporation from 1945 to 1948. He joined the Foreign Service in 1949 ai""ld served at Buenos Aires and Madrid, acting as Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the latter post in 1951-52. In 1952 President Truman appointed him as Ambas~ador to El Salvador, the youngest Ambassador in the history of the United States up to that time. Upon his resignation in June 1953 he became associated with the International Rescue Committee, a nongovernmental refugee and relief organization, and 
served as its P resident until 1961. 
The late President Kennedy appointed Ambassador Duke as Chief of Protocol in January 1961. Since that time his office has been responsible for arranging for the visits to the United States and meetings with the President and the Secretary of State of an unprecedented number cf world leaders. Ambassador Duke has also taken the lead in efforts to insure equal treatment for all diplomats accredited to Washington. 
Ambassador Duke is married to the former Mrs. Robin Chandler Lynn. They make their home at 2400 Foxhall Road, Washington, D. C., with their children Letitia and Jeffrey Lynn, 15 and 16; and Maria-Luisa, Dario and 
Biddle Duke, 1O, 7, and 2. 
Ambassador Duke is the son of Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson (Cordelia Drexel 
Biddle) of New York City, and the late Angier B. Duke of Durham, North Carolina, whose father Benjamin N. Duke, was one of the founders of the American Tobacco Company and Duke University. His uncle, the late Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, was serving as Ambassador to Spain upon his death in 1961. 
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