Nicholas Andrew Rey Explained

Nicholas Andrew Rey
Office:United States Ambassador to Poland
Term Start:December 21, 1993
Term End:October 25, 1997
Predecessor:Thomas W. Simons Jr.
Successor:Daniel Fried
Birth Date:23 January 1938
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Death Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.

Nicholas Andrew Rey (23 January 1938, Warsaw, Poland – 13 January 2009, Washington, D.C.) was an American diplomat, businessman, and United States Ambassador to Poland[1] (from 1993 to 1997), affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Life

Rey was born in Warsaw, Poland, and as an infant (at about two years old) fled the country with his family right after the beginning of World War II. In 1946 he became a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from Princeton and Johns Hopkins universities, and worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns. Rey died in Washington, D.C.[2] [3] A memorial service was held on January 30 in Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington D.C.[4] He was married, and had three children. He was a descendant of the Polish poet Mikołaj Rey.[5]

Political career

Rey was appointed the United States' ambassador to Poland by President Bill Clinton, and served in that role from 1993 to 1997.[6] He worked with many prominent Polish-Americans, for instance Edward Rowny and Mark Brzezinski, and participated in several campaigns of the Democratic Party.[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. United States Diplomatic Mission to Warsaw, Poland, Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Nicholas Rey, Passed Away on January 13
  2. Tributes.com Nicholas Rey Fled Poland as a toddler in 1939 and later returned to Warsaw as U.S. Ambassador
  3. ViaPolonia.Net A Tribute to Nicholas A Rey
  4. Web site: Paid Notice: Deaths REY, NICHOLAS ANDREW. query.nytimes.com.
  5. http://culture.polishsite.us/articles/art343fr.htm Polish culture
  6. Web site: 5 September 2002 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR NICHOLAS A. REY . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240703174618/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Rey-Nicholas-A.toc_.pdf . 3 July 2024 . 1 August 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  7. Web site: Nicholas A. Rey. www.nndb.com.