Anthony G. Freeman, a Foreign Service officer for more than 30 years with the Department of State, died May 5, 2007, in Bethesda, Md. He was 72.
Freeman graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s degree and from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a master’s in 1960.
During his long career in the Foreign Service, he was a political and labor officer in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Italy, as well as in other countries. He also served the State Department in Washington as a special adviser for international labor affairs to three secretaries of state, and later as deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor.
After retiring from the State Department, Freeman was the director of the Washington office of the International Labor Organization and an adjunct professor at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
He is survived by Maria Elisa, his wife of more than 38 years; two daughters, Andrea K. Freeman ’93 and Faith Freeman Hecht ’93 s’93; and two grandchildren.