John D. Jernegan

John Durnford Jernegan (1911–1981) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iraq from 1958 until the Government of Iraq requested his departure on June 2, 1962. He left his post on June 11, 1962. Jernegan was also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Algeria from 1965 until Algeria severed diplomatic relations with the United States on June 6, 1967.[1]

Jernegan was considered Persona non Grata after siding with Britain when Britain was going to protect Kuwait when Abdul Karim Qasim, the Iraqi leader, laid claim to Kuwait.[2][3] Qasim “designated the Kuwaiti monarch “qa’im maqam” – a subordinate to the governor of Basra – and threatened to “liberate” the country by force if the Kuwaiti monarch refused to accept this new designation.” Britain had supported Qasim in the recent past but now pressured the White House to protect Kuwait.[4]

References
  1. "John Durnford Jernegan". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  2. "TO MY CHILDREN". Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  3. "The John F. Kennedy National Security Files, 1961–1963" (PDF). Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. Wolfe‐Hunnicutt, Brandon. "THE END OF THE CONCESSIONARY REGIME: OIL AND AMERICAN POWER IN IRAQ, 1958‐1972" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
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