Robert Maxwell Pringle (born November 12, 1936, in

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) was the American Ambassador to

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

from November 6, 1987, until September 17, 1990.

Early life

Of Scottish heritage, the first Pringle to come to the United States emigrated in the eighteenth century. Pringle's paternal grandfather, James Maxwell Pringle, was from

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. His father, Henry F. Pringle, was a journalist. When he was young, the family moved to

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, where he grew up. Initially they lived on Argonne Place near Sixteenth Street and Columbia Road in

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. His parents eventually divorced and his mother sent him to

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for one year. When he returned, he attended the

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. Eventually, he attended

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as a history major who spent most of his time working at ''

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'', graduating in 1958.

References

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