What is Stuart Beck?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] |name = Stuart Beck |honorific-suffix = |image = |office1 = [[Palauan Ambassador to Oceans and Seas]] |leader1 = [[Tommy Remengesau]] |1blankname1 = {{nowrap|Secretary-General}} |1namedata1 = [[Ban Ki-Moon]] |term_start1 = August 2013 |term_end1 = March 1, 2016 |predecessor1 = |successor1 = |office2 = [[Palauan Ambassador to the United Nations]] |term_start2 = 2003 |term_end2 = 2010 |predecessor2 = |successor2 = [[H.E. Dr. Caleb Otto]] |birth_name = Stuart Jay Beck |birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|12|23}} | nationality = [[United States|American]]<br>[[Honorary Palauan]] |birth_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]] |death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2016|3|1|1946|9|23}} }} |death_place = Manhattan, New York City |spouse = Ebiltulik Beck (m. 1983; 4 children) |alma_mater = [[Harvard University]]<br>[[Yale Law School]] }} '''Stuart Jay Beck''' (December 23, 1946 &ndash; March 1, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[lawyer|law practitioner]] and a [[diplomat]] for [[Palau]]. Beck was born in [[Manhattan]]. He was raised in [[Brooklyn]]. As a lawyer, Beck helped negotiate the [[Compact of Free Association]], which established Palau as an independent nation in free association with the [[United States]] in 1994. He was granted honorary citizenship.<ref>http://www.pri.org/theworld/?q=node/19270 PRI the world</ref> In 2003, he accepted the job as Palau's first [[Permanent Representative to the United Nations]].<ref>http://www.palauun.org/ Palau UN website</ref> He had this job until 2013. In 2013, he was appointed as Palau's first ever United Nations Ambassador for Oceans and Seas. Beck died of [[kidney cancer]] on March 1, 2016 in [[Manhattan]], at the age of 69. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Beck, Stuart}} [[Category:1946 births]] [[Category:2