John B. Gates has been Chairman of the Board of InterContinental Hotels Corporation from 1959 to 1971.

            Mr. Gates joined Pan American World Airways in 1957, and was elected a Director of Pan Am Airlines in January, 1967. He had previously been treasurer of Russell, Burdsall & Ward Bolt & Nut Company, Port Chester, N.Y., and remained a member of the Board of Directors.

            During World War II, he served as chief counsel of the Iron and Steel Branch of the Office of Price Administration in Washington. In the Korean War, he was a consultant for the Office of Price Stabilization.

            Mr. Gates was graduated from Yale in 1931 and from Yale Law School in 1934. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1936 and was associated with the law firm of Reynolds, Richards & McCutcheon, New York from 1934 to 1941.

            Long active in Yale alumni affairs, Mr. Gates was the chairman of the Yale University Alumni Fund and was a member of the Yale Development Board of Directors of the Yale Alumni Fund, and Associate Fellow of Saybrook College.

            Mr. Gates was born in St. Albans, Vt., and was graduated from Taft School before matriculating at Yale. He resided in Greenwich, Conn., and was married to the former Mildred Davis. They had a son, John, and a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Crocker.

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