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Birth:          26 Jan 1914 Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio
Death:          22 Jan 2006 Falls Church, Va.

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1920 in Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio
1930 in Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio
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Charles Wallace Adair Jr., 91, a former U.S. ambassador to Panama and Uruguay, died 
Jan. 22 [2006] of heart disease at Goodwin House retirement home in Falls Church.

A longtime Foreign Service officer, Mr. Adair was ambassador to Panama from 1965 to 
1969. In 1966, Panamanian students demonstrating against the United States threw a 
milk carton filled with red paint, striking Mr. Adair in the back. Before his departure, he 
managed to rebuild relations with the Central American nation and to initiate talks that 
ultimately led to the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panamanian authority.

As ambassador to Uruguay from 1969 to 1972, Mr. Adair helped organize resistance to 
attacks from leftist factions.

He was born in Xenia, Ohio, where he was accomplished in both sports and music. He 
was a football player in high school and often took long camping and canoeing trips. 
He also took part in theater and was a talented pianist and organist, performing as a 
church organist in his teens.

Before his graduation from the University of Wisconsin, he was a college boxer and a 
singer with his brother's dance band.

Mr. Adair worked for Chase Bank in Panama in the 1930s before joining the State 
Department. He was posted to Mexico before World War II and spent much of the war 
stationed in India.

He later worked for the State Department's economic bureau, serving in Rio de 
Janeiro and Brussels. In 1961, he was appointed deputy secretary general of the 
Organization for European Economic Cooperation in Paris, where he coordinated 
economic and international aid programs. He served in Buenos Aires before being 
appointed ambassador to Panama.

After retiring from the State Department in 1972, Mr. Adair lived in Stuart, Fla., until 
1996, when he moved to Northern Virginia.

His wife of 49 years, Caroline Marshall Adair, died in 1996.

Survivors include three children, Marshall Adair of Tampa, Carol Finn of Silver Spring 
and Sarah Shaps of London, and six grandchildren.
--Published in the Washington Post, February 20, 2006

Name: Charles W. Adair
Born: 26 Jan 1914
Died: 22 Jan 2006
State (Year) SSN issued: District of Columbia (Before 1951)

Son of Charles Wallace Adair and Sarah Torrence (Goulard) Adair. Married, November 
28, 1947, to Caroline Lee Marshall. Foreign Service officer: U.S. Vice Consul in 
Nogales, 1940-41; Mexico City, 1941; Bombay, 1942-46; U.S. Ambassador to Panama, 
1965-69; Uruguay, 1969-72. Episcopalian. Member, Phi Gamma Delta.

NOTE: This is a cenotaph, since he was interred with his parents and wife in 
Woodland Cemetery, Xenia, Greene County, Ohio. See Charles Wallace Adair, Jr. at 
Woodland Cemetery 
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Parents
ADAIR Charles Wallace (20 Oct 1884 - 12 Sep 1979)
GOULARD Sarah Torrence (7 May 1889 - 23 Mar 1965)

Siblings
ADAIR Robert Goulard (28 Nov 1911 - 6 Oct 2005)
ADAIR Charles Wallace (26 Jan 1914 - 22 Jan 2006)
ADAIR Richard Torrence (27 Aug 1917 - 19 Feb 2005)
ADAIR David Nichols (10 Oct 1923 - 7 Dec 2004)
ADAIR Douglas Lee ()

Marriage To MARSHALL Caroline Lee (19 Oct 1927 - 9 Oct 1996)
    m. 28 Nov 1947 

Notes


Children by MARSHALL Caroline Lee 19 Oct 1927 - 9 Oct 1996
ADAIR Marshall P. ()
ADAIR Caroline ()
ADAIR Sarah ()

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