Frederick Nolting (24 August 1911-14 December 1989) was the US ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963, succeeding Elbridge Durbrow and preceding Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..
Biography[]
Frederick Nolting was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1911, and he served in the US Navy during World War II before joining the State Department in 1946. He served as a delegate to NATO before serving as President John F. Kennedy's ambassador to South Vietnam from 1961 to 1963. In 1963, as US-South Vietnam relations deteriorated due to the Buddhist Crisis, he was recalled to the USA, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was sent to replace him. He became a faculty member at the University of Virginia, and he died in Charlottesville in 1989.