Robert Hopkins Miller (September 8, 1927 – September 11, 2017) was a career Foreign Service officer and diplotmat. Miller was born in

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. Educated at

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and

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, he served in Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. His experience in Southeast Asia included service as First Secretary in the American Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam (1962–65); as Director of the Vietnam Working Group,

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(1965–67); as Senior Adviser to the American delegation at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam (1968–71); as Deputy

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with responsibility for Southeast Asia (1974–77); and as United States Ambassador to Malaysia (1977–80) and to

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(1983–86). He is a member of the

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. Miller served as Vice President of the

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from 1986 to 1989. In 1990, he was Diplomat-in-Residence at the

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in Washington, D.C.

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1927 births 2017 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Malaysia People from Port Angeles, Washington Ambassadors of the United States to Ivory Coast Stanford University alumni Harvard University alumni United States Foreign Service personnel American expatriates in Vietnam American expatriates in France George Washington University faculty {{US-diplomat-stub