Vincent de Roulet
Vincent de Roulet | |
|---|---|
| United States Ambassador to Jamaica | |
| President | Richard M. Nixon |
| Preceded by | Walter N. Tobriner |
| Succeeded by | Sumner Gerard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | California |
| Died | August 11, 1975 Falmouth Foreside, Maine |
Vincent de Roulet (died August 11, 1975) served as United States Ambassador to Jamaica.
Biography
De Roulet was elected to the board of directors of the Meadow Brook National Bank in 1964.[1]
De Roulet served as mayor of North Hills, New York.[2] He was appointed United States Ambassador to Jamaica by President Richard M. Nixon in August 1969,[2] and was presented his credentials on October 23, 1969. He left the post on July 18, 1973, when the Government of Jamaica declared him persona non grata.[3][4] He officially resigned in August.[5]
During the Watergate hearings, it was revealed that de Roulet allegedly received an "express committment" from the Nixon administration to receive a more attractive ambassadorship in exchange for a campaign donation of $100,000 to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.[6]
De Roulet married Lorinda de Roulet (nee Payson), the daughter of Joan Whitney Payson and Charles Shipman Payson, in 1951.[7] The couple had three children, daughters Whitney and Bebe, and son Daniel.[8]