Lewis, Delano

LC control no.	no2014111472
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Lewis, Delano *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1938-11-12
Death date	2023-08-16
Place of birth	Arkansas City (Kan.)
Place of death	Las Cruces (N.M.)
Affiliation	University of Kansas Washburn University of Topeka. School of Law United States. Department of Justice Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company National Public Radio (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Diplomats Lawyers Executives Ambassadors
Found in	Loving Uganda, 2014: QBI PCIP application (Delano Lewis, J.D.; Director of the United States Peace Corps in Uganda, Africa) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Howard Univ.) for His Interview, 1973 (Lewis, Delano, 1938- ; general public affairs manager, C & P Telephone Company; former administrative asst. to Delegate Walter Fauntroy (R-Mass.); former legislative asst. to Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.); recounts his early experiences as a government lawyer and as a Peace Corps administrator in Africa) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lewis, Delano; Delano Eugene Lewis Jr.; diplomat, corporate executive; born 12 November 1938 in Arkansas City, Kansas, United States; received a BA in political science from the University of Kansas (1960); a JD from Topeka's Washburn University School of Law (1963); worked as an attorney in the Justice Department and with the U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission; expanded his experience by serving in the Peace Corps (1965-1969); joined the staff of the District of Columbia's representative in the U.S. House of Representatives; engaged in a long association with a Bell Atlantic subsidiary, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (1973-1993), becoming vice president (1983) and president and CEO (1988); was president and CEO of National Public Radio (1993-1998); was appointed U.S. ambassador to South Africa (1999); became a senior fellow at New Mexico State University) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 18, 2023 (in obituary updated August 18, 2023: Delano Lewis, a longtime figure in Washington business and politics whose wide-ranging career included leading NPR during divisive budget battles and handling difficult diplomacy in South Africa as U.S. ambassador seeking to expand the fight against AIDS, died Aug. 16 in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 84. Delano Eugene Lewis was born in Arkansas City, Kan., on Nov. 12, 1939)