Albert William Sherer Jr. (January 19, 1916 – December 27, 1986)
was an American diplomat.
Biography
In 1938 he received a B.A. from
Yale University and an LL.B. in 1941 from
Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1941 to 1945.
In 1946 to 1949 under the U.S. State Department, Sherer was a commercial officer in
Tangier,
Morocco and he was temporarily assigned to
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...
, Morocco, as consular and legal officer from 1947 to 1948. After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer in
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of ...
.
In 1951 from 1955, Sherer was the
Romanian desk officer in the Office of Eastern European Affairs at the State Department. He was political officer in
Prague, then
Czechoslovakia, from 1955 to 1957 and an officer in charge of Polish, Baltic, and Czech Affairs in the office of Eastern European Affairs from 1957 to 1960.
From 1960 to 1961 he attended the Bowie Seminar for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in
Warsaw,
Poland, from 1961 to 1966, and appointed Ambassador to
Togo from 1967 until 1970. In 1968 and 1969, he was also accredited as Ambassador to
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
. Sherer was also Ambassador to
Guinea
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
from 1970 to 1972, Ambassador to
Czechoslovakia from 1972 to 1975 and Chief of the U.S. delegation to CSCE from 1974 and 1975.
After ambassadorship, from 1975 to 1977, Sherer was Deputy Representative of the
United States in the
Security Council of the United Nations. In 1975 he served as Alternate U.S. Representative to the Seventh Special Session and the Thirtieth Session of the
United Nations General Assembly, and in 1976 he served as Alternate U.S. Representative to the Thirty-first Session of the General Assembly. In 1977 he was Head of the U.S. delegation to the preparatory meeting in
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
,
Serbia, of the CSCE.
His daughter Susan Sherer was married to journalist
Peter Osnos
Peter L.W. Osnos (born October 13, 1943) is an American journalist who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books.
Early life
Osnos was born in India to a Jewish refugee family from Warsaw, Poland. He is the son of Joseph Osnos and Marta Osnos, wh ...
.
His grandson is journalist
Evan Osnos
Evan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' since 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China. His ...
.
References
External links
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Albert William Sherer, Jr. Papers (MS 1487).Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Ambassadors of the United States to Guinea
Ambassadors of the United States to Togo
1986 deaths
1916 births
People from Wheaton, Illinois
Ambassadors of the United States to Czechoslovakia
Ambassadors of the United States to Equatorial Guinea
Harvard Law School alumni
Yale University alumni
United States Foreign Service personnel
20th-century American diplomats