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DATE: SUNDAY, April 30, 1995                   TAG: 9505010073
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
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ANGIER DUKE, PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER, DIES

Angier Biddle Duke, scion of a powerful and aristocratic American family who served as ambassador to El Salvador, Denmark, Spain and Morocco and who was chief of protocol for two presidents, died Saturday near his home in Southhampton, N.Y., after being struck by a car while in-line skating.

He was 79 years old.

After he retired from the diplomatic service in 1981, Duke served as chairman of Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America, a Washington-based group supporting the rebels against Nicaragua's Marxist government.

Duke, whose father was Angier Buchanan Duke, was heir to part of the fortune from American Tobacco Co., which was founded in 1890 by his great-uncle James Buchanan Duke.

Angier Biddle Duke was the grandson of Benjamin N. Duke, who with his brother, James, heavily endowed Trinity College in Durham, N.C. The college later changed its name to Duke University.

In 1952, President Truman appointed him ambassador to El Salvador. At 36, he was then the youngest person ever to hold such a post.

He held no ambassadorship during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 through 1960, but looked after his own business interests and worked for the Democratic Party.

In 1960, President-elect Kennedy, a friend, invited him to be his chief of protocol. He used his office to help nonwhite diplomats find housing. In 1961, he resigned from the Metropolitan Club of Washington after it refused to admit black diplomats.

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