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Philip Merrill (
April 28 1934—
10 June 2006) was an
American diplomat,
publisher,
banker, and
philanthropist who committed suicide while traveling alone on his boat in the
Chesapeake Bay.
Career and philanthropy
Born Philip Merrill Levine, he was a graduate of
Cornell University and
Harvard Business School. At Cornell, he was managing editor of
The Cornell Daily Sun and a member of the
Quill and Dagger society. He was president and CEO of
Capital-Gazette Communications, Inc., which publishes
Washingtonian magazine, the Annapolis
Capital, and five other Maryland newspapers. His wife, Eleanor, succeeded him as publisher.
Merrill served as counselor to the
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 1981 to 1983; as a member of the
Defense Policy Board from 1983 to 1990; and as assistant
Secretary General of NATO in
Brussels from 1990 to 1992 under
President George H. W. Bush. He was appointed to head the
Export-Import Bank of the United States by
George W. Bush, serving from 2002 to 2005.
In 1988, he received the
Medal for Distinguished Service from then
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.
In 2001, Merrill donated $10 million to the College of Journalism at the
University of Maryland, College Park, which now bears his name. He also donated $4 million in 2003 to create the
Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Eliot A. Cohen. is the director of the Merrill Center.
Death
Merrill disappeared while sailing alone on the
Chesapeake Bay on
June 10,
2006. He was initially believed to have been lost at sea, and his body was found on
June 19. Merrill was found with a small anchor tied around one or both ankles and what investigators believe was a shotgun wound to the head, according to an anonymous source familiar with the investigation. His body was taken to the Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. Police said, "information from an outside source" indicated that Merrill had bought a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun within a week of his disappearance.
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