Rick Barton (diplomat)

Frederick "Rick" Barton (born September 5, 1949) is a United States diplomat. He served as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State until September 2014. Currently a Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School he is also the co-director of the University's Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative (SINSI) with his wife, Kit Lunney. In the fall of 2016, he was an Annenberg Scholar at Principia College in Illinois.

Barton, was the youngest son of an American diplomat. He was born in Buenos Aires. He lived in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Mexico, as well as in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Bronxville, New York. He attended Deerfield Academy and earned a B.A. in government from Harvard College in 1971 and an MBA from Boston University in 1982. He received an honorary doctorate from Wheaton College of Massachusetts in 2001.

During the first two decades of Barton's career, he lived in New England, primarily in Portland, Maine. He worked in U.S. Rep. William Hathaway’s successful 1972 campaign for election to the U.S. Senate and served as an aide to him in Maine from 1973 to 1975. In 1976 Barton sought election as the Congressman from the First District, beating six other candidates in the Democratic primary but losing to the incumbent, Republican David F. Emery.

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