of the same year, he resigned and did not serve any government position after a Hartford-Empire, subsidiary of Corning, faced an antitrust suit. He was also accused of monopolistic behavior and this particular case reached the Supreme Court. From 1943 to 1944, he was appointed as the chief mission officer for the Lend-Lease Administration, a program by which the United States supplied the Allied nations with food, oil, warships, warplanes, and with other weaponry during World War II. He was forced to resign in 1943 due to antitrust problems with a Corning subsidiary. On March 14, 1957, he was appointed the United States Ambassador to France by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He presented his credentials on April 17, 1957 and served until he left his post on January 19, 1961 shortly before President Kennedy took office. Scouting Houghton received the Silver Buffalo Award in 1945 and served as the National president of the Boy Scouts of America from 1946–1951. He served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1949–55. He was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, in 1955. Personal life In 1921, Houghton was married to Laura DeKay Richardson (d. 2003), the daughter of James Richardson of Providence, Rhode Island. During his time as Ambassador, his wife was referred to L'Ambassadrice Souriante (the Smiling Ambassadress) by the Herald Tribune. Together, they were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters, including: Amory Houghton Jr. (1926–2020), who attended Harvard, worked at Corning, and served as a U.S. Representative from New York. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II (1930–2016), who Billie Fisher Carr and worked at Corning, later becoming an ordained Episcopal priest. James Richardson Houghton (1936–2022), who also attended Harvard and worked at Corning. Elizabeth Houghton, who married Sidney James Weinberg Jr. (1923–2010), the son of Sidney Weinberg, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, in 1951. Laura DeKay Houghton, who married David Wells Beer, an architect in New York, in 1962. Houghton died at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina on February 21, 1981. Descendants Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of Elizabeth Livingston Weinberg, Sydney Houghton Weinberg, Peter Amory Weinberg (born 1957), the co-founder of Perella Weinberg Partners with merger specialist, Joseph Perella in 2006. See also Houghton