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About Heyward Isham
- Henry Heyward Isham (4 November 1926 – 18 June 2009), was a negotiator who played an important role in the talks with North Vietnam that led to the Peace accord of 1973.
- He was born in New York City in 1926 and studied International Relations at Yale, graduating in 1947 before being posted to the American Embassy in Berlin during the Cold War.
- From 1955 through 1957, he was chief of the consular section and political office at the United States Embassy in Moscow.
- From 1974 to 1977 after a posting in Hong Kong, Isham was the American Ambassador to Haiti.After his retirement from the diplomatic service he worked as an Editor with Doubleday publishers.
- During this period he supervised the publication of the memoirs of Andrei A.
- Gromyko, the Soviet foreign minister from 1957 to 1985, and other books by Russians. He was married to the artist Sheila Eaton with whom he had three children.
- Son Christopher Isham was named Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief for CBS News in July 2007.
- Son Ralph Heyward Isham is a former Fellow with the U.S.
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the SALT II treaty hearings.
- He also served on the staffs of Congressman James W.
- Symington of St.
- Louis, Missouri and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.
- Daughter Sandra Isham died in 1996.
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