asylum for thousands of persecuted Jews. In 1949, President Truman appointed McDonald the first U.S. Ambassador to the new State of Israel. Installed 2022 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Jewish Historical Society, Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation and the Delaware County Historical Society References External links United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Papers of James McDonald) Columbia University (Papers of James McDonald) U.S. State Department List of Ambassador's to Israel U.S. State Department Archives (People) Historical Marker Database The New Synagogue of Netanya (McDonald's) Yossi Melman, WHAT DID AMERICA’S FIRST ENVOY THINK OF THE JEWISH STATE?, The Jerusalem Post 'The Birth of Israel: U.S. Envoy McDonald’s Tireless Efforts' by Shlomo Slonim, Middle East Quarterly 1886 births 1964 deaths People from Coldwater, Ohio People from Albany, Indiana People from Bronxville, New York Indiana University Bloomington alumni Ambassadors of the United States to Israel League of Nations people Harvard University alumni Burials in Indiana American Zionists