John Price (born 1933 in Berlin, Germany) is an American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles. He is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors and CEO of JP Realty.
Biography
Price was born Hans Joachim Praiss[1] to a Jewish family in Germany in 1933 and experienced Kristallnacht as a child.[2] His family left Germany in April 1939, first for Panama and then the United States where they had relatives.[2] He moved to Utah at the age of 18[3] and earned a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1956.[2] In 1957, he founded J. Price Construction Co. and later, renamed JP Realty, Inc.[2][3] In January 1994, the company filed an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.[3]
He served as a trustee Administrator at the University of Utah from 1992 to 1999. He also has been an active supporter of George W. Bush.[4][5] In 1957,[1] he married Utah native Marcia Poulsen whom he met in college; they have three children.[6]
References
- ^ a b Ambassador John Price website Archived 2019-06-20 at the Wayback Machine retrieved September 12, 2015
- ^ a b c d Deseret News: ""WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE CALLS: From Immigrant Entrepreneur to U.S. Ambassador," by John Price, University of Utah, $30, 690 pages (nf)" By Steve Larson September 3, 2011
- ^ a b c Deseret News: "John Price: Real estate developer has built JP Realty into a premier force in the West" By Max B. Knudson March 23, 1997
- ^ "John Price". nndb.com. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ^ "US Ambassador to Seychelles". nndb.com. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ Deseret News: "MARCIA PRICE: PROMOTING, LOVING, DIRECTING THE ARTS" By Dorothy Stowe January 8, 1989
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