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Nomination of Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton To Be United States Ambassador to Nicaragua

January 13, 1982

The President today announced his intention to nominate Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton, of Washington, to be Ambassador to Nicaragua. He would succeed Lawrence A. Pezzullo.

Mr. Quainton entered the Foreign Service in 1959 as visa-commercial officer in Sydney. From 1962 to 1963, he attended Hindi language studies at the Foreign Service Institute. He was economic officer in Karachi (1963-64), in Islamabad (1964-66), and political and economic officer in New Delhi (1966-69). In the Department he was Senior Political Officer for India from 1969 to 1972. He was political officer in Paris (1972-73), and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kathmandu (1973-76). He was Ambassador to the Central African Republic from 1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1981, he was Director of the Office for Combatting Terrorism, with the rank of Ambassador, in the Department.

Mr. Quainton graduated (B.A.) in 1955 from Princeton University and received his B. Litt. in 1958 from Oxford University, England. He was born April 4, 1934, in Seattle, Wash.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton To Be United States Ambassador to Nicaragua Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245953

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