Curtin Winsor Jr. (born April 28, 1939) is a former Ambassador of the United States to Costa Rica.

Biography

Winsor was born in

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, on April 28, 1939, and graduated from Brown University in 1961 with a degree in English literature. Following his undergraduate studies, he received a master's degree in Latin American studies in 1964, and his Ph.D. in international studies in 1971, from the

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at American University in Washington, D.C. After a stint as an academic researcher, he joined the

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in 1967, and from 1971 to 1973, he worked as an assistant to Senator

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of Kansas. Winsor subsequently worked for

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and several non-profit concerns focusing on international and free-trade issues. Winsor w as a foreign-policy adviser to former California Governor Ronald Reagan in his successful 1980 presidential campaign. Following the 1980 campaign, President Reagan sent him as Special Emissary to the

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. From 1983 to 1985, he was the

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to Costa Rica. He was involved with several non-profit boards, including those of the William H. Donner Foundation, the Donner Canadian Foundation, the Hudson Institute, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and the

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, as well as the National Council of the

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. Winsor is the founder and past owner of the American Chemical Services Company of

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, which has produced chemicals for the control of dust and frozen coal for coal mines and coal users since 1981.

External links

Biography of Curtin Winsor, Hudson Institute

Biography of Curtin Winsor, American Ambassadors
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