Keith Leveret Wauchope (October 13, 1941

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- October 10, 2021) was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served concurrent appointments as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

and

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ( pt, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe), is a Portuguese-speaking i ...

(1989-1992). He grew up on the

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, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and

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. After initially attending local public schools, he went to Staunton Military Academy before transferring to the

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and from there, Johns Hopkins University (Class of 1963). He started out as an engineering major but ended up concentrating in history.

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{{US-diplomat-stub 1941 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Gabon Ambassadors of the United States to São Tomé and Príncipe People from Lloyd Harbor, New York People from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Boston Latin School alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Staunton Military Academy alumni 20th-century American diplomats