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Nomination of J. Stapleton Roy To Be United States Ambassador to Singapore

August 16, 1984

The President today announced his intention to nominate J. Stapleton Roy, of Pennsylvania, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore. He would succeed Harry E.T. Thayer.

In 1956 Mr. Roy entered the Foreign Service and was intelligence analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Department. He attended Chinese language training in Taichung (1958-1959) and was political officer in Bangkok (1959-1961), consular officer in Hong Kong (1962), and political officer in Taipei (1962-1964). From 1964 to 1965, he attended Mongolian language studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and was international relations officer in the Bureau of European Affairs in the Department from 1965 to 1968. He attended Russian language studies in Garmisch, Federal Republic of Germany, from 1968 to 1969. He was administrative officer (1969-1970) and political officer (1970-1972) in Moscow. From 1972 to 1974, he was Deputy Director of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs in the Department. He attended National War College from 1974 to 1975. In the Department he was Deputy Director of the Office of People's Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs from 1975 to 1978. He was deputy chief of the United States liaison office (1978-1979) and deputy chief of mission (1979-1981) in Beijing. Since 1981 he has been deputy chief of mission in Bangkok.

Mr. Roy graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1956). His foreign languages are Chinese-Mandarin, Russian, and Thai. He was born June 15, 1935, in Nanking, China, of American parents.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of J. Stapleton Roy To Be United States Ambassador to Singapore Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/261847

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