Peggy Blackford (born 1942) was the American Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau from 1995 until relations were suspended in June 1998 and she fled to Senegal to escape the rebellion in Guinea-Bissau. Born in

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and attended Ewing High School. Blackford graduated from

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in 1963.

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