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John Florian Kordek (1938 – February 16, 2021)
was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
(1988–1989).
Kordek has also been Associate Vice President for External Relations at
DePaul University
DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...
in Chicago. Kordek was also an alumnus of DePaul University (1964, geography major)
as well as the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies (M.A, 1967). He was also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. In 2000,
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
appointed him to the Holocaust Memorial Council.
References
1938 births
2021 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States to Botswana
DePaul University alumni
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
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