Willard Leon Beaulac (July 25, 1899 – August 25, 1990) was an American diplomat. He served as U.S.

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to Paraguay,

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, Cuba, Chile and Argentina.

Biography

Willard L. Beaulac was born on July 25, 1899, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to Sylvester Clinton Beaulac and Lena Eleanor Jarvis. He attended

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before joining the United States Navy in 1918. After his honorable discharge in 1919, he attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and graduated in 1921. Beaulac joined the United States Foreign Service in 1921. He received his first ambassadorial appointment to Paraguay in 1944. in 1947 he was named United States Ambassador to Colombia. He married Catherine Hazel Arrott Greene on February 25, 1935. From 1951 to 1953 he was United States Ambassador to Cuba. In 1953 he succeeded

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as United States Ambassador to Chile. From 1956 to 1960 he was United States Ambassador to Argentina. Before retiring around 1962 he was the deputy commandant for foreign affairs of the

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. Beaulac died from Alzheimer's disease in Washington, D.C., on August 25, 1990, at the age of 91.

Positions

* US Ambassador to Argentina (1956–60) *

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(1953–56) * US Ambassador to Cuba (1951–53) * US Ambassador to Colombia (1947–51) * US Ambassador to Paraguay (1944–47) * US State Department Consul General, Madrid (1941–44) * US State Department Counsellor, Havana (1940–41) * US State Department Assistant Chief, Division of American Republics (1937–40) * US State Department Assistant Chief, Division of Latin American Affairs (1934–37) * US State Department Second Secretary, San Salvador, El Salvador (1933) * US State Department Second Secretary, Managua, Nicaragua (1928–33) * US State Department Third Secretary, Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1927–28) * US State Department Consul, Arica, Chile (1925–27) * US State Department Vice Consul, Puerto Castilla, Honduras (1923–25) * US State Department Vice Consul, Tampico, Mexico (1921–23)

Professor

* Southern Illinois University *

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Works

* ''Career Ambassador'', Macmillan, 1951, (memoir) * ''Career Diplomat: A Career in the Foreign Service of the United States'' (1966) * ''A Diplomat Looks at Aid to Latin America,'' Southern Illinois University Press, 1970 * * ''Franco: Silent Ally in World War II'', Southern Illinois University Press, 1986,

References

External links

United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission by Country, 1778-2005

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