Elbridge Durbrow

Elbridge Durbrow (September 21, 1903 – May 16, 1997) was an American Foreign Service officer and diplomat who served as the Counselor of Embassy and Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the late 1940s and later the US ambassador to South Vietnam from March 1957 to April 1961.

Durbrow was born in San Francisco, California. Durbrow graduated from Yale University in 1926 with a degree in philosophy. He then continued his education at Stanford University, the University of Dijon in France, the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and finally the University of Chicago, where he studied international economics and finance.

Durbrow began his career in the United States Foreign Service by serving as Vice Consul at the American embassy in Warsaw, Poland. He rose through the service's ranks over the next decade while serving in the embassies in Bucharest, Naples, Rome, Lisbon and Moscow. In 1941, Durbrow became the assistant chief of State Department's Eastern European affairs division.

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