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From March [[1947]] to June [[1949]], he was the president of the [[World Bank]]. In 1949 he replaced [[Lucius D. Clay]] who was the Military Governor for the [[U.S.Zone]] in Germany as the [[Allied High Commission|U.S. High Commissioner]] for [[Germany]] and held this position until [[1952]], during which time he oversaw Germany's return to statehood. At his direction, a campaign of wholesale pardoning and commutation of sentences of Nazi criminals took place; some however were retried and convicted in the newly independent West Germany. His successor as High Commissioner was [[James B. Conant]]; the office was terminated in [[1955]].
Following this, he served as chairman of the [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] from [[1953]] to [[1960]], and as chairman of the [[Ford Foundation]] from [[1958]] to [[1965]]; he also became a director of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. From 1954 to 1970, he was chairman of the prestigious [[Council on Foreign Relations]] in New York, to be succeeded by [[David Rockefeller]], who had worked closely with him at the Chase Bank. McCloy had a long association with the [[Rockefeller family]], going back to his early Harvard days when he taught the young Rockefeller brothers how to sail.
He later served as advisor to [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Lyndon Johnson]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[Ronald Reagan]], and was the primary negotiator on the Presidential [[Disarmament Committee]].
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