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Ambassadors Of The United States To Togo
This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Togo. Until 1955 French Togoland was a United Nations Trust Territory mandated by the U.N. to France. In 1955, French Togoland became the administrative Republic of Togo within the French Community ''(Communauté française)'', although it retained its UN trusteeship status. In 1960 Togo severed its constitutional ties with France, shed its UN trusteeship status, and became fully independent as the Togolese Republic. The United States immediately recognized Togo and moved to establish diplomatic relations. The State Department established an embassy in Yaoundé in nearby Cameroon on January 1, 1960, with Bolard More as ''Chargé d'affaires ad interim''. The Yaoundé embassy was simultaneously accredited to Togo. The embassy in Lomé was established on April 27, 1960, with Jesse M. MacKnight as ''Chargé d’Affaires ad interim''. On June 23, 1960, Leland Barrows was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Fitzsimmons
Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy Fitzsimmons (born 1972/1973) is an American diplomat who is serving as the United States Ambassador to Togo. Education Fitzsimmons earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. She also holds a certificate from the International Division of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 1993. Career Fitzsimmons is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. She has served overseas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, India and Bulgaria. She has also worked in the State Department's Operations Center and as Deputy Director of the State Department's Executive Secretariat. Other assignments included being deputy executive secretary to Secretaries John Kerry and Rex Tillerson, senior advisor at the Foreign Service Institute, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Public Diplomacy) in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and the Office of the Special Representative for Afghan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert W
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Brenda Schoonover
Brenda Brown Schoonover (born 1939) was the United States Ambassador to Togo, from January 1998 to July 2000. Schoonover was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, and did graduate studies at Howard University, Washington, D.C. She is fluent in French; and is married to Richard C. Schoonover, a former Foreign Service officer retired from the former United States Information Agency (now known as the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs section of the State Department). She began her overseas service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1961 in the Philippines with the first groups to go abroad. She later served in the Peace Corps' Office of Talent Search, then as associate director of the Peace Corps in Tanzania, followed by an appointment as director of the agency's School Partnership Program. In the 1970s, Schoonover worked for two years as Arlington County of Virginia's affirmative action officer. Schoonover has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Young (ambassador)
Johnny Young (February 6, 1940 – July 24, 2021) was an American diplomat. A Foreign Service Officer, he served as an ambassador and was posted to North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia during his 37 year service. Early life Johnny Young was born on February 6, 1940, in Savannah, Georgia. His mother died in January 1941, after which he was raised by a paternal aunt. At age seven, Young moved to Philadelphia. He grew up in poverty, and despite receiving poor grades on standardized tests, graduated high school in 1957. In the 1960s, Young traveled to Beirut as a delegate from the Philadelphia YMCA. Inspired by the international trip, he received his Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude) from the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University in 1966, to work overseas". Young married Angelena Clark around 1967, and by November 22, 1970, the two were expecting their first child. Career From 1957 into the 1960s, Young worked as a junior accountant for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |