Robert Solwin Smith (1924

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) was a non-career appointee who served as the American Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Côte d'Ivoire from 1974 to 1976 and vice president of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. He left

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to serve in the Navy during World War II. Smith returned to Yale, graduating in 1947. He received a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1956, both in government, at

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. Smith died at his home due to complications from melanoma.

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