Cameron Haskin Sanders Jr.

12/30/1932 - 11/04/2025

Cameron Haskin Sanders Jr. passed away on November 4, 2025. Cameron was a Foreign Service Officer specializing in international conservation. He served in Baghdad, Rotterdam and Brussels (NATO delegation) as well as the State Department headquarters in Washington DC, and a year at Columbia School of International Affairs in New York.
He retired from the Foreign Service after 18 years to accept a fellowship at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he earned a master's degree. He went on to work for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global conservation network organization, establishing and leading its North American regional coordinating office in Washington.
Cameron was also active in cultural and environmental groups: he chaired the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Council of the College of Preachers at the Washington National Cathedral, where he also served on the Cathedral Chapter. He served on the board of the Center for Marine Conservation (now the Ocean Conservancy), Friends of Tregaron, and the International Committee of the New York City Ballet.
Cameron was a son of Cameron Haskin Sanders and Helen Ingersoll Sanders of Cincinnati, Ohio. Early American forebears included Governor William Bradford of Plymouth and Jonathan Edwards, the New England theologian.
He survived polio as a child but went on to swim for Cincinnati's Walnut Hills High School. He graduated from Ohio's Kenyon College, with a degree in French Literature.
In 1961, he married Betsy Tucker, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Luther Tucker, in Cincinnati. Their first Foreign Service posting was in Baghdad, Iraq, where their first child was born during an attempted military coup.
Cameron and Betsy spent many happy family summers in Cape Cod. They shared a lifelong love of sailing, travel, wine and gourmet food. Cameron was also a keen skier and an avid reader.
Betsy died in 2019 on the eve of their move to Ingleside at Rock Creek, where Cameron would live for the rest of his life. Their son Cam died in 2022.
Cameron is survived by his and Betsy's children Helen, Marcia, and Nick; in-laws Julian, David, Erika, and Kim; and grandchildren Jamie, Katherine, Emily, Jojo, Ben, Lillian, and Simon.
A funeral service will be held on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 3 p.m. at the St. Alban's Episcopal Churchm, 3001 Wisconsin Ave, Washington, DC 20016.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to:
The Chapel of St. James the Fisherman
PO Box 1334, Wellfleet, MA 02667
https://www.stjameschapelwellfleet.org/