John Claggett Danforth is an American politician,attorney and diplomat who began his career in 1968 as the Attorney General of Missouri and served three terms as United States Senator from Missouri. In 2004,he served briefly as United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest.
Clayton Keith Yeutter,ONZM was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture under President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991 before serving as Counselor to the President in 1992. He served as United States Trade Representative from 1985 to 1989 and as Chairman for the Republican National Committee from 1991 until 1992. Yeutter was employed as a Senior Advisor at the international law firm Hogan Lovells in Washington,D.C.
Charles"Chip" Eustis Bohlen was an American diplomat,ambassador,and expert on the Soviet Union. He helped shape US foreign policy during World War II and the Cold War and helped develop the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. In 1934,he served as a diplomat in the first US embassy to the Soviet Union in Moscow as well as during and after World War II. He succeeded George F. Kennan as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1957. He served as ambassador to the Philippines from 1957 to 1959 and to France from 1962 to 1968. He was an advisor to every U.S. President from 1943 to 1968 and one of the nonpartisan foreign policy advisers who were known colloquially as "The Wise Men."
Nicholas Platt is an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan,Philippines,Zambia,and as a high level diplomat in Canada,China,Hong Kong,and Japan. He is the former president of the Asia Society in New York City.
Edward Joseph Perkins was an American career diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia,South Africa,the United Nations,and Australia. He also served as the director of the United States State Department's Diplomatic Corps.
David Michael Satterfield is an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador,who has served extensively in the Middle East,including the Persian Gulf area,Lebanon,and Iraq. He later served as a Senior Advisor on Iraq for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers,the peacekeeping force for the Sinai Peninsula from June 2009 until August 2017. He was chargéd'affaires to Egypt from August 2013 to January 2014 and was subsequently Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Libya. From September 2017 to June 2019 he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs,and was confirmed as US ambassador to Turkey on June 27,2019.
Frederick Henry Boland was an Irish diplomat who served as the first Irish Ambassador to both the United Kingdom and the United Nations.
Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who is currently serving as the Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activity,U.S. Africa Command since 2012. Before his current assignment,Ambassador Dell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo,after having also been posted to Angola and Zimbabwe.
Clayton Fritchey was an American journalist who spent many years in public service.
Larry Leon Palmer was an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2012 to 2015. He was the United States Ambassador to Honduras from 2002 to 2005. He also served as the President of the Inter-American Foundation from 2005 to June 2010.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
John N. McMahon is a former senior U.S. official of the Central Intelligence Agency.
William Tapley Bennett Jr. was an American diplomat who served as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic during the 1965 civil war and who recommended that President Johnson intervene with United States troops.
The Northern Virginia Sun was a newspaper published in Arlington,Virginia,from the 1930s until 1998. For much of its life,it was a six-day-a-week broadsheet,published Monday through Saturday,that emphasized local news.
Gary Faye Locke is an American politician and diplomat serving as the interim president of Bellevue College,the largest of the institutions that make up the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system. Locke previously served as the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011–2014) and as the 21st governor of Washington (1997–2005). He also served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011).
William Miller Collier was United States Ambassador to Spain from 1905 to 1909,the president of George Washington University from 1918 to 1921,and United States Ambassador to Chile from 1921 to 1928.
William Bodde Jr. was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands,Fiji,Tonga,Tuvalu,and Kiribati. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,Class of Minister-Counselor. He was also the first executive director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),establishing the international secretariat for the organization in Singapore. He was active for over thirty years as an American diplomat and was a senior advisor to Jimmy Carter,Ronald Reagan,and George H. W. Bush. He was also an experienced writer and lecturer on foreign affairs. He is survived by his sons Peter William Bodde and Christopher Scott Bodde,four grandchildren,and three great grandchildren.
William Edward "Bill" Todd was appointed in May 2019 as Deputy Under Secretary for Management. He also served as the Acting Under Secretary of State for Management from February 2018 to May 2019.
