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  Thorne Jr., Landon K.
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NameLandon K. Thorne Jr.
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, New York , United States
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Born 00, 1913
Died 00, 1980 (67 years)
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Jul 25, 2009 01:48pm
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InfoLandon K. Thorne, Jr. (~1913-1980), graduated from Yale in 1934. He was associated with the Bankers Trust Company from 1936 until his retirement in 1965, as a vice president and managing director of two of the bank's overseas investment companies. He was a lieutenant commander in the US Navy during World War II. After the war, he was a member of a special State Department task force that set up the military assistance plan in Europe. He was director of the Foreign Operations Administration in Italy from 1953-55, then in Belgium from 1955-56. He was publisher of the Rome [Italy] Daily American from 1956 to 1963. (Landon Thorne Jr., Ex-Diplomat. New York Times, May 14, 1980.) At the time of Julia Thorne's marriage to John Forbes Kerry, he managed the family's investments from a Wall Street office. {John Kerry Weds Miss Julia Thorne. New York Times, May 24, 1970.)


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Daughter Julia Thorne 1944-2006
Granddaughter Alexandra Kerry 1973-
Granddaughter Vanessa Kerry 1976-
Son David H. Thorne 1944-

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