He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1947. At Princeton he was in the Woodrow Wilson School, belonged to Quadrangle, was captain of the soccer team, and earned All-American honors his senior year. He roomed with Lance Holden, Bruce Huber, Lou Kelly, Howie Parks, Fred Riehl, and Ben Webster.
Following graduation he was posted for two years in Germany as a lieutenant in Army Intelligence. He spent a year at Columbia earning a master’s degree in public law and government before going on to Harvard Law School from 1954 to 1957.
While in Cambridge he met Leslie Alt (Wellesley ’58). They were married later that year. John worked as an associate at the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood from 1957 to 1963. He then joined the legal department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington. He was assistant general counsel at the bank when he retired in 1989.
John died April 4, 2016, in Washington. He is survived by his wife, Leslie; their children, John, Charles ’83, and Julie Munger ’85; and seven grandchildren.