Allan Jack Katz (born April 30, 1947) is a former City Commissioner of
Tallahassee and
American
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Ambassador
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to Portugal. President Barack Obama nominated Allan to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Portuguese Republic in November 2009. Ambassador Allan Katz is a distinguished professor with the University of Missouri Kansas City Bloch School's Department of Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Science's Political Science Department. He is the founder of the American Public Square, an organization using civil discourse to bridge the partisan divide. In 2019, American Public Square announced a new partnership with
William Jewell College, changing its name to American Public Square at Jewell, and Ambassador Katz was brought on as Distinguished Professor in Residence in William Jewell's Department of Political Science. Katz is a lawyer by profession who has been active in local and national government and politics for many years. He has been a member of the Democratic National Committee where he helped draft the party's platform for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Ambassador Katz holds a B.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington D.C. He was raised in a
Jewish
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family in
St. Louis, the son of Fred and Eileen Katz.
[St. Louis Jewish Light: "Local boys make good; Call for Unsung, brisket entries"]
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN] March 7, 2012 His father escaped Nazi Germany for the United States where he worked as a salesman;
Portugal Resident: "Guests touched by American ambassador’s revelation" by Chris Graeme
July 09, 2010 and was one of the original founders of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum.
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External links
Allan J. Katz (1947–)
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
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1947 births
Living people
20th-century American Jews
University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni
Washington College of Law alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to Portugal
21st-century American Jews