Armin H. Meyer, 92; U.S. Ambassador, State Department Official
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Armin H. Meyer, 92, who served as U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, died Aug. 13 of Parkinson’s disease at a hospital in Washington, D.C.
He was deputy assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs when President Kennedy named him ambassador to Lebanon in 1961. He spent four years in Beirut, followed by four in Tehran.
In Tokyo, Meyer helped negotiate the return of Okinawa to Japanese control and tried to smooth relations with the Japanese when it was announced in 1971 that President Nixon would visit China.
After leaving Tokyo in 1972, he spent a year heading a Cabinet committee to combat terrorism. Nixon launched the committee after the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
Meyer was born Jan. 19, 1914, in Fort Wayne, Ind. He received an associate’s degree from Lincoln College in Illinois in 1933, a bachelor’s degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, in 1935, and a master’s degree in mathematics from Ohio State University in 1941.
He served in the U.S. Office of War Information in Cairo during World War II.
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