Edson Oliver Sessions (November 5, 1902 Toledo, Ohio – November 15, 1987 Laguna Hills, California) was a consulting engineer from Chicago who served as the American ambassador to Finland (1959–1960) and Ecuador (1968–1970).[1][2]

Biography

Sessions graduated with a B.S. from Harvard University in 1925.[3] He died at his home in Laguna Hills.[1]

Career

In 1925 he was made Vice President in Charge of Construction for his father's firm, the E.O. Sessions Engineering Company. In 1930, he went to work for Bendix Aviation.[3] When his father died, Sessions took over his father's business until he sold it in 1954.[1] (Another source says he stayed at Bendix until 1935, when he opened up his own company called Sessions Engineering Company of Chicago).[3] Sessions was appointed Deputy Postmaster General by Dwight D. Eisenhower and served until Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Ambassador to Ecuador.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "EX-AMBASSADOR EDSON SESSIONS". Chicago Tribune. November 18, 1987. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Edson Oliver Sessions (1902–1987)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Briefing of the Honorable Daon O. sessions" (PDF). CIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Edson O. Sessions, Envoy to Finland, Ecuador". Los Angeles Times. November 19, 1987. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
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