Stuart W. Rockwell

Rockwell died on March 12, 2011 in Sibley Memorial Hospital from congestive heart failure. His obituary would note, along with the aforementioned, that he was an "avid birdwatcher and skilled fisherman."

Rockwell would ultimately retire in 1979 from government work, at that point serving as the State Department’s Deputy Chief of Protocol.

Rockwell was appointed by President Nixon on March 17, 1970 as Ambassador to Morocco, a position he would hold until October 1, 1973. In 1971 he would be present at the birthday party of King Hassan II at his summer palace during the 1971 Moroccan coup attempt.

In June 1956 Rockwell would marry fellow U.S. State Department employee Rosalind Hollow Morgan at St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square.

Rockwell would go on to be stationed in Jerusalem from 1948 until 1950; where, two weeks after the state of Israel declared independence, he was shot at by a sniper.

Stuart Wesson Rockwell (January 15, 1917 – March 12, 2011) was an American diplomat who served as the American Ambassador to Morocco between 1970 and 1973.

Rockwelll was born in New York City, New York on January 15, 1917. He was the son of Colonel Charles Kellogg Rockwell. Despite being born in New York, he was raised in Paoli, Pennsylvania. He would go on to receive a bachelor's degree in Romance languages from Harvard in 1939. Shortly after, Rockwell achieved the rank of Career Minister in foreign service on August 12, 1939.