What is Michael Shenstone?
[[File:Michael Shenstone in 2012 -b.jpg|thumb|Michael Shenstone in 2012]] '''Michael Shenstone''' (June 25, 1928 &ndash; September 9, 2019) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician.<ref name=GM>{{cite news |url = http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20110122.OBJOHNMFRASERATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths/?pageRequested=2 |title = Emissary opened Canada's Beijing embassy: Ambassador to Poland during the Solidarity uprising was a maestro of witty asides |work = [[The Globe and Mail]] |author = Sandra Martin |date = 2011-01-22 |access-date = 2012-11-17 |quote = Michael Shenstone, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and director-general of African and Middle Eastern Affairs, was Fraser's boss in the late 1970s. |archive-date = 2016-03-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235738/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20110122.OBJOHNMFRASERATL/BDAStory/BDA/deaths/?pageRequested=2 |url-status = dead }}</ref> He was born in [[Toronto]]. Shenstone was the Canadian ambassador to [[Saudi Arabia]] between 1974 and 1978 and to [[Austria]] from 1985 through 1990. He played a key role in releasing [[Iran hostage crisis|American hostages from Iran]] between 1979 through 1981. Shenstone died in [[Mississauga, Ontario]] on September 9, 2019 at the age of 91.<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=michael-shenstone&pid=193898927 Michael Shenstone 1928-2019]</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shenstone, Michael}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Canada]] [[Category:Politicians from Toronto]] {{bio-stub}}