William McCormick Blair III1
#5955, (1962 - 2004)
| Relationship | 1st cousin 2 times removed of Estelle Rose Roche |
| Father* | William McCormick Blair Jr1 (1916 - 2015) |
| Birth* | 1962 | He was born in 1962.1 |
| Death* | 2004 | He died in 2004.1 |
Citations
- [S504] Wikipedia, online Wikipedia.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McCormick_Blair,_Jr.; "William McCormick Blair, Jr. (born October 24, 1916) served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1961 to 1964 and as U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines from 1964 until 1967. A lawyer, he also was a close associate of Adlai Stevenson.
On September 9, 1961, in the chapel at Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark, Ambassador Blair married Catherine "Deeda" Gerlach (born 1931), the former wife of oleomargarine heir Charles Clarke Jelke and the only daughter of Norman Harbridge Gerlach (1904-1980), a partner in the Chicago law firm Gerlach & O'Brien, and his wife, the former Joanna Powell. Deeda Blair was named director and vice-president of the Lasker Foundation in 1965 and is a noted advocate for public health issues. The Blairs had one child, William McCormick Blair 3rd (1962–2004).