Kenneth Keating

Kenneth Keating
United States Ambassador to Israel
In office August 28, 1973 – May 5, 1975
Preceded by	Walworth Barbour
Succeeded by	Malcolm Toon
United States Ambassador to India
In office 1969–1972
Preceded by	Chester Bowles
Succeeded by	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
United States Senator from New York
In office January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1965
Preceded by	Irving Ives
Succeeded by	Robert F. Kennedy
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 38th district
In office January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1959
Preceded by	John Taber
Succeeded by	Jessica M. Weis
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 40th district
In office January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953
Preceded by	George F. Rogers
Succeeded by	William E. Miller
Personal details
Born	Kenneth Barnard Keating (1900-05-18)May 18, 1900 Lima, New York
Died	May 5, 1975(1975-05-05) (aged 74) New York City, New York
Political party	Republican

Kenneth Barnard Keating (May 18, 1900 – May 5, 1975), was a United States Representative and a U.S. Senator from New York and later an appellate judge and a diplomat representing the United States as ambassador to India and later to Israel.

Life and career

Keating was born in Lima, New York, the son of Louise (Barnard), a schoolteacher, and Thomas Mosgrove Keating, a businessman.^[1] He attended public school and was graduated from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1915. When the United States entered World War I, he joined the United States Army and served as a sergeant. He attended the University of Rochester, graduating in 1919, and while there he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He then attended Harvard University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1923. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Rochester. During World War II, he again joined the US Army, served overseas as an officer, and was promoted to brigadier general in 1948. On returning to the United States, he resumed his law practice.

Keating was elected to the House of Representatives as a Republican to the 80th, 81st, 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, representing Rochester-area districts, and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959. In 1958, he defeated New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Irving Ives, and served from January 3, 1959, to January 3, 1965. Before the Cuban Missile Crisis, Senator Keating accused the Soviets and Cuba of building IRBMs in Cuba and urged President John F. Kennedy to take action.

Keating was a moderate, like many prominent New York Republicans of his era.^[2] When he was running for re-election in 1964 Keating refused to endorse his party's presidential nominee, the conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, who was highly unpopular in New York as too extreme.^[3] Keating did a lot better than Goldwater in New York but was still defeated for re-election in 1964 by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, after a campaign in which Keating labelled Kennedy, who had spent only part of his childhood in New York, as a "carpetbagger." William Safire wrote: "Since both candidates were liberals, there was little ideological argument; Keating, to overcome Kennedy's fame and name, played on his opponent's reputation for ruthlessness".^[4]

In 1965, Keating was elected to the New York Court of Appeals but resigned in 1969 to become United States Ambassador to India where he stayed until 1972. Keating then served as Ambassador to Israel from August 1973 until his death in 1975.

References

1. ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0700449
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4. ↑ Safire, William (1978). Safire's Political Dictionary. Random House. p. 558. ISBN 0-394-50261-2. 

External links

• Kenneth Keating at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• U.S. State Department Archives (People)
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Kenneth B. Keating" is available for free download at the Internet Archive
• A film clip "Longines Chronoscope with Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (June 20, 1952)" is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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United States Ambassadors to India Henry F. Grady Loy W. Henderson Chester Bowles George V. Allen John Sherman Cooper Ellsworth Bunker John Kenneth Galbraith Chester Bowles Kenneth Keating Daniel Patrick Moynihan William B. Saxbe Robert F. Goheen Harry G. Barnes, Jr. John Gunther Dean John R. Hubbard William Clark, Jr. Thomas R. Pickering Frank G. Wisner Dick Celeste Robert Blackwill David Mulford Timothy J. Roemer Nancy Jo Powell Kathleen Stephens (Acting) Richard Verma

Ambassadors of the United States of America to the State of Israel James Grover McDonald (1949–50) Monnett Bain Davis (1951–53) Edward B. Lawson (1954–59) Ogden R. Reid (1959–61) Walworth Barbour (1961–73) Kenneth Keating (1973–75) Malcolm Toon (1975–76) Samuel W. Lewis (1977–85) Thomas R. Pickering (1985–88) William Andreas Brown (1988–92) William C. Harrop (1992–93) Edward Djerejian (1994) Martin Indyk (1995–97) Edward S. Walker, Jr. (1997–2000) Martin Indyk (2000–01) Daniel C. Kurtzer (2001–05) Richard Jones (2005–08) James B. Cunningham (2008–11) Daniel B. Shapiro (2011–)