title: John A. McKesson, III
text: # John A. McKesson, III
  
  John Alexander McKesson III (1922 – May 21, 2002) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Gabon (1970-1975). McKesson was also the Associate Editor of Arts d'Afrique Noire and an adjunct Professor of politics at the Institute of French Studies at New York University.
  
  ## Biography
  
  McKesson entered Columbia University as a junior and went on to receive an AB and MA. After serving four years in the navy during World War II and working for a short time at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, he joined the Foreign Service in 1947.
  
  