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Nomination of Alvin P. Adams, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Djibouti

March 04, 1983

The President today announced his intention to nominate Alvin P. Adams, Jr., of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti. He would succeed Jerrold Martin North, who is assigned to the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.

Prior to entering the Foreign Service in 1967, Mr. Adams was a congressional summer intern in the office of Mr. James M. Hanley (1965) and summer law clerk in the law firm of Reid and Priest, New York, N.Y. (1966). In 1968 he attended Vietnamese language training at the Foreign Service Institute. He was on detail to the Agency for International Development in 1968-1969 as area development officer for Quang Nam Province in Vietnam. He was special assistant to the Ambassador (1969-1970) and political officer (1971-1972) in Saigon. In 1972-1974 he was a staff member of the National Security Council at the White House. In 1974-1976 he was special assistant to the Secretary of State. In the department he served in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs as financial economist (1976-1977), Deputy Director of the Office of Business Practices (1977-1979), and Special Assistant for Legislative and Public Affairs (1979-1981). In 1981 he was Director of the Secretariat Staff and since August 1981 has been Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State.

Mr. Adams graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1964) and Vanderbilt University (LL.D., 1967). His foreign languages are French, Vietnamese, and Spanish. He was born August 29, 1942, in New York, N.Y.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Alvin P. Adams, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Djibouti Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262762

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