Maurice M. Bernbaum

Maurice Marshall Bernbaum (1910– March 8, 2008) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ecuador (1960-1965) and Venezuela (1965-1969).^[1]

Bernbaum graduated from Harvard University in 1931. He passed the Foreign Service exam in 1936 and later that year, became Vice Counsul in Vancouver.^[2]

During his tenure as Ambassador to Ecuador, their President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy was overthrown by the Military Junta of 1963 after criticizing the US government and insulting Bernbaum.^[3][4] His wife Betty Hahn Bernbaum was an amateur radio operator and philanthropist,^[5] whose emergency work after the 1949 Ambato earthquake and 1967 Caracas earthquake was widely publicized.^[6][7]