Nomination of Allen Clayton Davis To Be United States Ambassador to Uganda

The President today announced his intention to nominate Allen Clayton Davis, of Tennessee, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador to Uganda. He would succeed Gordon Robert Beyer, who is being assigned to the Department of State.

Mr. Davis served in the United States Navy in 1947-1953 as air intelligence officer, lieutenant commander. He entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as personnel placement officer in the Department. From 1958 to 1960, he was consular officer, then political officer in Monrovia. From 1960 to 1962, he served in the Department as international economist, then desk officer in the Bureau of African Affairs. He was adviser at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York from September to December 1962. In the Department he was officer in charge of Belgium-Luxembourg affairs (1962-1965) and attended Russian language training at the Foreign Service Institute (1965-1966). He was political officer in Moscow (1966-1968), counselor for political affairs and Deputy Chief of Mission in Ouagadougou (1968-1970), and counselor for political affairs in Algiers, American Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy (1970-1973). He attended the Army War College in 1973-1974. He was counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Dakar (1974-1977) and minister-counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kinshasa (1977-1980). Since 1980 he has been Ambassador to the People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea.

He attended Middle Tennessee State College (1945), Duke University (1945-1947), and George Washington University (1951-1954). In 1956 he received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University. His foreign languages are Russian and French. He was born August 23, 1927, in Glencliff, Tenn.