Carl Edward Dillery (December 17, 1930 – January 23, 2016) was the U.S. ambassador to Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati (formerly known as the Gilbert Islands) (1984 to 1987) and chair of the

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’s (AFSA) Scholarship Committee for 15 years (1997 to 2012) and retiree vice president from 1991 to 1993. Dillery was born in

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. He graduated from Seattle Pacific College in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in history and earn a master's of science degree in the administration of national security from The

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. After Seattle Pacific, he worked as an insurance examiner before joining the Foreign Service in 1955.

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The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR CARL EDWARD DILLERY
Ambassadors of the United States to Fiji Ambassadors of the United States to Tonga Ambassadors of the United States to Kiribati Ambassadors of the United States to Tuvalu People from Seattle Seattle Pacific University alumni George Washington University alumni 1930 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American diplomats {{US-diplomat-stub