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John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895 – March 11, 1989) was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and high-ranking bureaucrat. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson .
John J. McCloy was born on January 3, 1876, in Brewster, NY to James McCloy and Sophia Beatty. John McCloy joined the Merchant Marine when he was 15 and enlisted in the United States Navy on March 7, 1898. He served on the cruiser USS Columbia in the West Indies during the Spanish–American War.
John McCloy may refer to: John McCloy (Medal of Honor) (1876–1945), American naval officer who was twice awarded the Medal of Honor John J. McCloy (1895–1989), American public official
John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. The group comprised two lawyers, two bankers, and two diplomats. Five of the six were from the so-called Georgetown Set. Acheson, Harriman, and Lovett had known each other since their days at prep school or college and on Wall Street. Bohlen, Kennan and ...
Domhoff—who described Lovett, Harvey Bundy and John McCloy as having a close working relationship; and credited John F. Kennedy as accepting Lovett's advice to appoint Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, Robert S. McNamara as Defense Secretary, and C. Douglas Dillon as Treasury Secretary in 1961.
Occupation forces were not to assist with economic development apart from the agricultural sector. Ignoring the amendments to JCS 1067 that had been inserted by John J. McCloy of the War Department, Morgenthau told his staff that it was a big day for the Treasury, and that he hoped that "someone doesn't recognize it as the Morgenthau Plan". [50]
McCloy knowingly employed numerous US intelligence agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests. [76] [77] The CIA channeled funds through Ford Foundation as a part of its efforts to influence culture. [78] [79] [80]
John O. Dahlgren: Marine Corps: Corporal: Beijing, China: Jun 20, 1900 – Jul 16, 1900 "[For] distinguishing himself by meritorious conduct" Daniel J. Daly: Marine Corps: Private: Beijing, China: Aug 14, 1900: For distinguishing himself by meritorious conduct. Later awarded a second Medal of Honor for action in Haiti in 1915. [5] —