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Harlan Cleveland (January 19, 1918 – May 30, 2008) was an American diplomat, educator, and author. He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965. He was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Cleveland also served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.

He was born on January 19, 1918 in New York City, to Stanley Matthews Cleveland (grandson of Stanley Matthews) and Marian Van Buren. His siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland (who became an economist), Anne Cleveland White (who became an artist), and Stanley Cleveland (who became a diplomat).[citation needed] Cleveland's father died when he was eight years old, after which the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended school and learned French. Upon returning to the states, Cleveland attended Phillips Andover Academy from 1931 to 1934, and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1938 and 1939, where one of his teachers was Harold Wilson. When World War II broke out, Cleveland returned to the States.

Cleveland's career included periods of service as an American diplomat and as an educator, as well as significant productivity as a writer and book author.

In 1953, he became executive director and later publisher of The Reporter.

He served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961. He was appointed the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1965, and then as President Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969.

Cleveland went on to serve as president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, a period that saw university's addition of an international astronomy project, a law school, and a medical school.[verification needed]

Cleveland was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI), and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s.[citation needed] and he was elected president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s.

Cleveland was and the founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.[when?]

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