John Price (born 1933 in Berlin, Germany) is an American diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles. He is a member of the Council of American Ambassadors and CEO of JP Realty.
Biography Price was born Hans Joachim PraissAmbassador John Price website retrieved September 12, 2015 to a Jewish family in Germany in 1933 and experienced Kristallnacht as a child.Deseret News: ""WHEN THE WHITE HOUSE CALLS: From Immigrant Entrepreneur to U.S. Ambassador," by John Price, University of Utah, $30, 690 pages (nf)" By Steve Larson September 3, 2011 His family left Germany in April 1939, first for Panama and then the United States where they had relatives. He moved to Utah at the age of 18Deseret News: "John Price: Real estate developer has built JP Realty into a premier force in the West" By Max B. Knudson March 23, 1997 and earned a B.A. at the University of Utah in 1956. In 1957, he founded J. Price Construction Co. and later, renamed JP Realty, Inc. In January 1994, the company filed an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
He served as a trustee Administrator at the University of Utah from 1992 to 1999. He also has been an active supporter of George W. Bush. In 1957, he married Utah native Marcia Poulsen whom he met in college; they have three children.Deseret News: "MARCIA PRICE: PROMOTING, LOVING, DIRECTING THE ARTS" By Dorothy Stowe January 8, 1989
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