Maxwell Davenport Taylor was a senior United States Army officer and diplomat of the mid-20th century. He served with distinction in World War II,most notably as commander of the 101st Airborne Division,nicknamed "The Screaming Eagles."
Alfred Leroy "Roy" Atherton Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1979–1983. He was a Middle East expert who helped in the negotiations that led to the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt.
Charles Anthony Gillespie Jr. was a United States career diplomat who helped to open the first United States Embassy in Grenada. He later served as the United States Ambassador to Colombia and the United States Ambassador to Chile.
James Caldwell Cason is a retired United States Foreign Service officer,most recently serving as Ambassador to Paraguay,a post he held from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that post,he was the Principal Officer of the US Interests Section in Havana (2002–2005). On January 20,2011,he became the new mayor of Coral Gables,Florida.
John Gunther Dean was an American diplomat. From 1974 to 1988,he served as the United States ambassador to five nations under four American presidents.
The Distinguished Honor Award is an award of the United States Department of State. Similar versions of the same award exist for the former U.S. Information Agency,Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,and USAID. It is presented to groups or individuals in recognition of exceptionally outstanding service or achievements of marked national or international significance.
Lyle Franklin Lane was a United States diplomat.
Henry Alfred Byroade was an American career diplomat. Over the course of his career,he served in Egypt (1955–1956),South Africa (1956–1959),Afghanistan (1959–1962),Burma (1963–1968),the Philippines (1969–1973),and Pakistan (1973–1977). A 1937 graduate of West Point,he served in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II,and oversaw the construction of airfields in India and in China for the Fourteenth Air Force and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the Twentieth Air Force as part of Operation Matterhorn. After the war he was chief of staff to George C. Marshall with the Marshall Mission to China.
George Walter Landau was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay,Chile,and Venezuela.
Philip Seth Goldberg is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines,Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. He has served in Washington as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. In 2022,he was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and was confirmed on May 5,2022 by the United States Senate through a voice vote.
Patrick Nickolas Theros is an American diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Qatar from 1995 to 1998.
Francis Terry McNamara is a retired career Foreign Service Officer,ambassador and author.
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota is the current Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Patriota took office as foreign minister on January 1,2011,and remained in office until August 26,2013.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang,Beijing.
William Dale Montgomery is a retired United States diplomat. He served as the US ambassador in Bulgaria,Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro.
Phạm Bình Minh is a Vietnamese diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2021 and as Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2013 to 2023. Between September 2021 and his dismissal in January 2023,he also served as the Permanent Deputy Prime Minister,the most senior among the deputy prime ministers,in the Cabinet of Phạm Minh Chính. Minh was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam,the country's highest decision-making body,headed by General Secretary Nguyễn PhúTrọng.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Brazil from 2020 to 2021 and as the United States ambassador to Ecuador from 2016 to 2019.
Yitzhak Eldan was born on October 30,1943. He is an Israeli diplomat as well as a former Israeli Ambassador. He has served,among other postings,as the Israeli Ambassador to Denmark,to the Council of Europe and UNESCO,as well as Head of State Protocol for Israel and Director of the Israeli Diplomatic school. In 2011,he founded The Ambassadors’Club of Israel and continues to serve as its President. In addition,since 2013 he has been directing The Israeli School for Young Ambassadors. Senior Lecturer on Diplomacy,Hebrew University,Jerusalem.
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