[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 141 (Monday, October 18, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2117]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TRIBUTE TO AMBASSADOR E. WILLIAM CROTTY

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                          HON. CARRIE P. MEEK

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 18, 1999

  Mrs. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it is with great honor that I rise 
to pay tribute to one of our Nation's exceptional diplomats, E. William 
Crotty, Ambassador to Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, 
St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This 
able facilitator of American diplomacy passed on Sunday, October 10, 
1999. He is survived by his loving wife, Valerie Kushner, and several 
outstanding children.
  Ambassador Crotty was nominated by President William Clinton on April 
28, 1998. Prior to this appointment, Ambassador Crotty was an attorney 
in Daytona Beach, FL. Ambassador Crotty served as a senior managing 
partner of one of the top law firms in the United States, where he was 
recognized as a leading lawyer in his area of practice, which included 
corporate and business transactions, banking and finance law, and 
taxation and real estate law.
  Ambassador Crotty served appointments to at least 11 different 
commissions, including the Commission for the Preservation of America's 
Heritage Abroad by President Clinton in 1996 and the Judicial 
Foundation Board by Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell in 1989. He 
was quite active in the Democratic Party, serving on the National 
Finance Board of the Clinton-Gore Campaign, as a Democratic National 
Party Trustee, and as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 
Democratic National Committee Board of Directors from 1984 to 1988.
  Ambassador Crotty was quite active in civil affairs, serving as 
chairman or member of the board of directors for numerous charitable 
and educational organizations, including the United Way of Volusia 
County, the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, the 
Father Lopez High School Board, and the Volusia County Easter Seals. 
His indefatigable civic service earned him the title of Outstanding 
Citizen of the Year and Young Man of the Year from the Daytona Beach 
Chamber of Commerce.
  Born in Claremont, NH, Ambassador Crotty exemplified leadership at an 
early age. He was an exceptional high school student at Bellows Falls 
High School in Vermont where he was a three-time state champion in 
tennis and graduated salutatorian of his high school class. Ambassador 
Crotty graduated from Dartmouth College, where he again excelled in 
athletics, making captain of his tennis team while also playing varsity 
squash and basketball. Ambassador Crotty received his law degree from 
the University of Michigan and obtained a master of law in taxation 
from New York University Law School.
  The people of the United States, as well as the people of Barbados, 
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, and 
St. Vincent and the Grenadines will miss my friend--a great American 
and personal representative of the President of the United States.

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