Editing Ellsworth Bunker (section)

==Early life and education==
Ellsworth Bunker was born on May 11, 1894, in [[Yonkers, New York]].<ref name=NolanCJ-p48>{{cite book |last=Nolan |first=Cathal J. |title=Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary |year=1997 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29195-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/notableusambassa00west/page/48 48] |url=https://archive.org/details/notableusambassa00west/page/48 }}</ref> He was the eldest of three children of George Raymond Bunker and Jeanie Polhemus (''née'' Cobb), whose family descended from prominent early Dutch settlers including the [[List_of_United_States_political_families_(E)#The_Evertsons_and_Smiths|Evertson]] family (of the [[Great Nine Partners Patent|Great Nine Partners]]) and the [[Schuyler family]]. His great-grandmother Eliza Brodhead Polhemus ''née'' Heyer was a niece of [[Stephen Whitney]], reputedly the wealthiest American of his time after [[John Jacob Astor]], while her first cousin Charles Suydam was the brother-in-law of Astor's grandson [[William Backhouse Astor Jr.]] and his wife [[Caroline Schermerhorn Astor]].<ref name=NolanCJ-p48/><ref name=RobertH-GreensfelderNS>{{cite book |last=Roberts | first= Harry Jr. |author2=Nelson Sutro Greensfelder |title=The Explosives Engineer: Volumes 27-29 |year=1949 |publisher=Hercules Powder Co. |page=4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Institute for Research in Biography |title=Who's Who in Commerce and Industry, Volume 10|year=1957 |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=167 }}</ref> 

Bunker's father was one of the founders and chairman of the board of National Sugar Refining Company. His younger brother, Arthur Hugh Bunker (July 29, 1895 – May 19, 1964), was also a noted businessman, chairman of the executive committee of the [[War Production Board]] (1941–1945) during World War II, and president and then board chairman of American Metal Climax (AMAX). He was married to actress and writer [[Isabel Leighton]].<ref name=RobertH-GreensfelderNS/><ref>{{cite news |title=Arthur H. Bunker Dead at 68 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 20, 1964 }}</ref> His first cousin Dorothy Penrose Cobb was married to historian [[Frederick Lewis Allen]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Ellsworth Bunker was enrolled at [[Yale University]] in 1912 and graduated in 1916 with a major in economics and a minor in history.<ref name=NolanCJ-p48/><ref>{{cite book |last=Schaffer |first=Howard B.|title=Ellsworth Bunker: Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk |url=https://archive.org/details/ellsworthbunkerg00scha |url-access=limited |year=2003 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-2825-0 |page=7]}}</ref>