J. William Middendorf

John William Middendorf II (born September 22, 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a Republican United States diplomat. Middendorf received a Bachelor of Naval Science from College of the Holy Cross in 1945. He served in the Navy just at the end of World War II as engineer officer and navigator of USS LCS(L) 53, being mustered out in 1946. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1947, where he was a member of the Owl Club. He also graduated from New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration, receiving an M.B.A. in 1954. He became an investment banker and in 1963 in partnership with Austen Colgate formed his own company, Middendorf, Colgate and Company (with a seat on the New York Stock Exchange). An...