James Malone Theodore Rentschler (October 16, 1933 Rochester, Minnesota - May 2007

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) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who was Ambassador to Malta. He succeeded Joan M. Clark who was named

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Education

Rentschler received a certificate from the University of Paris in 1954, graduated from

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in 1955, and received a master’s degree from

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Career

From 1955 until 1958, Rentschler was a military linguist with the U.S. Army Security Agency before joining the Foreign Service in 1959. He became a senior staff member in 1978. That year, he was posted as Director of West European Affairs on the National Security Council under the Carter administration, and continued in the Reagan administration. Reagan appointed him Ambassador to Malta (1982 until April 1985). While there, he was asked to head the Summit Public Diplomacy Inter-Agency Team. He was appointed Ambassador to Guinea in 1986 but the nomination was withdrawn on September 11, 1986 before the Senate could act on it.

Publications

*''A Reason to Get Up in the Morning: A Cold Warrior Remembers'' Publisher Estate of James M. Rentschler, 2008 , 9780557017539

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rentschler, James Malone 1933 births 2007 deaths Yale University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Ambassadors of the United States to Malta 20th-century American male writers