Widely reported as the first openly gay US Ambassador.
[1] Presently self-identifies as gay, and is reported as such in the press. He is listed here as bisexual due to a ten-year marriage which resulted in multiple progeny. Katharine Q. Seelye, "Clinton Appoints Gay Man as Ambassador as Congress Is Away", The New York Times, 5 June 1999. Also see Thomas J. Ashcroft, "Will US Export Homosexuality Instead of Democracy?", Insight on the News, 26 January 1998, listing Soule as a partner, and Chris Bull, "A Philanthropist's Trial by Fire", The Advocate, 15 September 1998, listing Wu as a partner.
Father: Jay C. Hormel
Wife: Alice Turner (m. 1955, div., one son, four daughters)
Son: James Hormel, Jr.
Daughter: Alison
Daughter: Anne
Daughter: Elizabeth ("Diz")
Daughter: Sarah
Boyfriend: Larry Soule (artist, ex, met 1970s, cohabited eighteen years)
Boyfriend: Timothy C. Wu (public interest lawyer, cohabited after 1995)
University: BA History, Swarthmore College (1955)
Law School: JD, University of Chicago Law School (1958)
Administrator: Board of Managers, Swarthmore College (1988-)
US Ambassador to Luxembourg (1999-2001)
US State Department Alternate delegate to the UN (1997)
US State Department US delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission (1995-97)
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