President Lyndon Johnson appointed him Ambassador to the Dominican Republic after the previous Ambassador, John Bartlow Martin, resigned after the Kennedy assassination on the very day in which Juan Bosch, then President of the Dominican Republic, was toppled in a coup d'etat. Embassies in Rome, Italy, in Vienna, Austria, and in Athens, Greece. From 1957 to 1964, he acted as Counselor and Minister at the U.S. From 1954 to 1955, he studied at the National War College and for two years after, he served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. From 1951 to 1954, Bennett was Deputy Director to the Office of South American Affairs. He served as a United States Army intelligence officer during World War II. Career Īfter graduation from law school, Bennett joined the Foreign Service in 1941. After doing graduate work at the University of Freiburg in Germany from 1937 to 1938, he returned to the United States and earned a law degree from George Washington University Law School.
īennett attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
His maternal grandparents were Peyton Brantley "Mem" Little and Julia Elizabeth (née Neal) Little. He was the only child of William Tapley Bennett Sr. Bennett was born in Griffin, Georgia on April 1, 1917.
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