Donald M. Blinken

Donald Mayer Blinken (November 11, 1925 – September 22, 2022) was an American politician and businessman. He was born in New York City.

Blinken was director and one of the founders of E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company. He was the board chairman of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990. He was the American Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 to 1998 during the Bill Clinton presidency. He was the father of United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken died in East Hampton on September 22, 2022, at age 96.

 Early life and education 
Donald Mayer Blinken was born on November 11, 1925, in Yonkers, New York, the son of Maurice Blinken and his wife, Ethel (Horowitz).  Maurice Blinken was an early backer of Israel and founded the American Palestine Institute which helped persuade the United States to back the creation of Israel.   His father and mother were of Jewish descent and his father was from Kyiv, the Russian Empire, who, according to Antony Blinken, "fled pogroms in Russia". His grandfather was author Meir Blinken. Blinken has two brothers, Alan and Robert.

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