Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat who represented Montana in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953 and United States Senate from 1953 to 1977. As the leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus from 1961 to 1977,Mansfield shepherded Great Society programs through the Senate;his tenure of exactly sixteen years was the longest of any party leader in Senate history,until the record was broken by Mitch McConnell in 2023.
William Everett Schaufele Jr. was an American diplomat and official at the United States Department of State.
George Frederick Reinhardt (1911–1971) was an American foreign service officer and diplomat from 1937 until 1968. He was considered by his peers to be among the finest diplomats of his era. Reinhardt was the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam (1955–1957),to the United Arab Republic and North Yemen (1960–1961) and to Italy (1961–1968). In Vietnam,he worked to improve relations between the United States and South Vietnamese Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem.
Elbridge Durbrow was a Foreign Service officer and diplomat who served as the Counselor of Embassy and Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the late 1940s and then as the US ambassador to South Vietnam from March 14,1957,to April 16,1961. He supported the Diem regime until late 1960,when he reported that the situation was deteriorating and that unless steps were taken to reform the government,Diem would be likely overthrown in a coup,or lose the country to the Viet Cong. Diem and his American supporters worked to get Durbrow transferred,and he was recalled by President John F. Kennedy in 1961,and sent to a diplomatic role with NATO in Europe.
William Brockway Edmondson was an American diplomat in the United States Foreign Service,who served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1978-1981.
Nicholas Alexander Veliotes is a former United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Jordan (1978–81) and Egypt (1984–86). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Alphonse F. La Porta a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service,served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from December 1997 to November 2000. Subsequently,he served as the Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Regional Headquarters Allied Forces in southern Europe from January 2001 to November 2003.
Dwight Dickinson III was a United States diplomat and Navy veteran.
Larry Miles Dinger was the U.S. chargéd'affaires to Burma from 2008 to August 2011. Since the United States did not accredit a formal United States Ambassador to Burma from 1990 to 2012,the chargéd'affaires was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.
Marshall Green was an American diplomat whose career focused on East Asia. Green was the senior American diplomat in South Korea at the time of the 1960 April Revolution,and was United States Ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Transition to the New Order. From 1969 to 1973,he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,and,in this capacity,accompanied President of the United States Richard Nixon during President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Morton Isaac Abramowitz is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. Starting his overseas career in Taipei,Taiwan after joining the foreign service,he served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and Turkey and as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He retired from the State Department with the rank of Career Ambassador. He then became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and founded the International Crisis Group.
Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton was an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the Central African Empire,Nicaragua,Kuwait,and Peru.
Marshall Brement was a career United States Foreign Service officer who served as United States Ambassador to Iceland in 1981–1985 and,after retirement,was a professor at the University of Virginia.
Charles Aaron Ray is an American former diplomat who acted as the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe between 2009 and 2012. He is a former Foreign Service Officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who held the position of U.S. Ambassador twice,and retired with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He is also a retired U.S. Army officer who was decorated twice for his actions in combat during the Vietnam War,and later served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs.
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.
Joan M. Plaisted is an American diplomat. She is a career diplomat of the United States Foreign Service,and was the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands and Kiribati from 1995 to 2000 concurrently,while resident at Majuro.
Samuel David Berger was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Korea from 1961 to 1964.
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