Richard Timothy Conroy

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Richard Timothy Conroy (1928-2010) was born in a mining town in the Tennessee mountains. After a time making H-bombs in Oak Ridge, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and served in Zurich, Belize, and Vienna. He then transferred to the Smithsonian Institution, where he worked as an international liaison until he retired to write and play the piano. He chronicled his time in the State Department in his memoirs, Our Man in Belize and Our Man in Vienna.