Wymberley deRenne Coerr | |
---|---|
![]() | |
United States Ambassador to Ecuador | |
In office March 24, 1965 –October 7, 1967 | |
President | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Preceded by | Maurice M. Bernbaum |
Succeeded by | Edson O. Sessions |
United States Ambassador to Uruguay | |
In office July 27,1962 –January 22,1965 | |
President | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Edward J. Sparks |
Succeeded by | Henry A. Hoyt |
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (acting) | |
In office April 20,1961 –July 17,1961 | |
President | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Thomas C. Mann |
Succeeded by | Robert F. Woodward |
Personal details | |
Died | October 5,1996 Ajijic,Mexico |
Spouse(s) | Eleanor Coerr (m. 1965–1996) |
Wymberley deRenne Coerr (died October 5,1996) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs in 1961,between the terms of Thomas C. Mann and Robert F. Woodward. He also served as Ambassador to Uruguay from 1962 to 1965 and Ambassador to Ecuador until 1967. [1] [2]
Coerr,an alumnus of Yale University and the Naval War College,died at a clinic in Ajijic,Mexico due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. [1]
Mario Benedetti Farrugia,was an Uruguayan journalist,novelist,and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
TabaréRamón Vázquez Rosas was a Uruguayan politician who served as the 39th and 41st president of Uruguay from 2005 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2020. A physician (oncologist),he was a member of the leftist Broad Front coalition.
Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978. In 1951,he co-founded a political party,the Social Christian Party. In 1991,he left the Social Christian Party and formed a new conservative group,the Republican Union Party (PUR),before running for president for the third time in 1992.
The Ecuador national football team represents Ecuador in men's international football and is controlled by the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF). They joined FIFA in 1926 and CONMEBOL a year later.
Raja Tridiv Roy sometimes spelled Tridev Roy,was a Pakistani politician,diplomat and writer who was the Minister of the Minority Affairs in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto cabinet. He was also the 50th Raja/King of the Chakma tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of present-day Bangladesh from 2 May 1953,until his abdication in 1971 following the Bangladesh Liberation War. He chose to remain a Pakistani when Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971. He became known as a writer,diplomat,Buddhist religious leader and politician in Pakistan.
Eleanor Coerr was a Canadian-born American writer of children's books,including Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and many picture books.
The Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs is the head of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs within the United States Department of State,the foreign affairs department of the United States federal government. The Assistant Secretary of State guides operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of the Western Hemisphere and advises the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary for Political Affairs.
Wiliam Dawson Jr. was a career United States diplomat. He was U.S. ambassador to multiple countries,including being the first ambassador to the Organization of American States.
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón is a Dominican-American attorney and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Most recently,she was the chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. She formerly served as a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm Winston &Strawn LLP. She was previously a partner with Chadbourne &Parke LLP,practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014,she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State. President Biden nominated her to be the next United States Ambassador to Spain on July 27,2021,being confirmed on December 18,2021.
Leopoldo Benites was an Ecuadorian diplomat who served as the 28th President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973. He had been the permanent representative of Ecuador since October 1960.
Robert Forbes Woodward was an American diplomat who focused on U.S. relations with Latin America.
Frank E. Baxter is a Republican American businessman and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Uruguay under George W. Bush,from 2006 to 2009.
Ambassador Deepak Kishinchand Bhojwani joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1978 as a trained diplomat. He has served as ambassador in seven Latin American countries,being resident ambassador in Colombia (2007-2010),Venezuela (2003-2006) and Cuba (2010-2013),as well as serving as Consul General in São Paulo,Brazil (-2003). In 1994 he was picked by Indian Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to serve as his Private Secretary and served under the Prime Minister during India's economic reform period,where the country opened its economy to foreign Investors and relaxed regulation. The Ambassador has also served his country as a Diplomat in the Indian Embassies of Indonesia,Malaysia,Spain and the Czech Republic as a lower level functionary.
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza is an Ecuadorian businessman,banker and politician who has served as the 47th president of Ecuador since 24 May 2021. He is the country's first conservative president in nearly two decades,marking a shift in the country's electorate.
Robert Marion Sayre was a United States State Department official and ambassador to Brazil,Panama and Uruguay. A career foreign service officer specializing in Latin American affairs,Sayre served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 1968 to 1969,Ambassador to Panama from 1969 to 1974,and Ambassador to Brazil from 1978 to 1981. He also held the position of Inspector General of the U.S. State Department from 1974 to 1978.
Coerr is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Emilio Rafael Izquierdo Miño is an Ecuadorian diplomat,since January 28,2019 he is Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Christian Magelssen Ravndal was an American Career Foreign Service Officer FSO who served as the 2nd Director General of the Foreign Service from May 1,1947,until June 23,1949,Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uruguay (1949-1951),Hungary (1951-1956),Ecuador (1956-1960),and Czechoslovakia (1960-1961),among many other postings during a prolific career spanning 40+ years.
Susan (Susie) deRenne Coerr (1939-2007) was an American artist,educator and co-founder of the Northern California Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art.
Gennady Vasilyevich Sizov was a Soviet and Russian diplomat. He served in various diplomatic roles from 1971 onwards,and was ambassador of Russia to Bolivia between 1998 and 2003.