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Nomination of Joseph Monroe Segars To Be United States Ambassador to Cape Verde

May 29, 1992

The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph Monroe Segars, of Pennsylvania, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Counselor, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Cape Verde. He would succeed Francis Terry McNamara.

Currently Mr. Segars serves as a member of the Senior Seminar of the Foreign Service Institute at the Department of State. Prior to this, he served as a career counselor in the Senior Officer Division, Department of State Office of Personnel, 1989 - 91; Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1986 - 89; and as Consul General of the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, 1983 - 86. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Segars served as desk officer for Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Swaziland in the Office of Southern African Affairs at the Department of State.

Mr. Segars graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1961) [See APP Note below]. He was born January 6, 1938, in Hartsville, SC. Mr. Segars is married, has one child, and resides in Washington, DC.

APP Note: Joseph Monroe Segars graduated from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, "the first institution of higher learning for African Americans." Since 1983, Cheyney has been a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The University of Pennsylvania is a private institution. APP policy is to reproduce as precisely as possible the original published presidential papers including errors.

George Bush, Nomination of Joseph Monroe Segars To Be United States Ambassador to Cape Verde Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/267925

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