Nomination of Richard Wood Boehm To Be United States Ambassador to Cyprus

The President today announced his intention to nominate Richard Wood Boehm, of the District of Columbia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus. He would succeed Raymond C. Ewing.

Mr. Boehm served in the United States Army in 1944-1946. In 1950-1951 he was a proofreader and editor with the Prentice-Hall Publishing Co., and was in junior management with the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York in 1951-1955. In 1955 he entered the Foreign Service as press officer in the Department. He was consular officer in Naha (1956-1958), economic officer, staff officer, then political officer at the United States Mission in Berlin (1958-1962). In the Department he was intelligence and research analyst (1962-1965) and NATO political affairs desk officer (1965-1966). In 1966-1968 he was deputy chief of mission in Luxembourg. He attended the National War College in 1968-1969 and was in the Department as public affairs adviser in the Bureau of Economic Affairs in 1969-1971. He was Embassy counselor for mutual security (political-military) affairs in Ankara (1971-1974), and Embassy counselor for political-military affairs in Bangkok (1974-1976). In 1976-1977 he was diplomat in residence at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. He was a foreign service inspector in the Department in 1977-1978. He was deputy chief of mission in Kathmandu (1978-1980), and in Ankara (1980-1983). In 1983 he was an adviser with the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Since 1984 he has been Deputy Examiner of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service in the Department.

Mr. Boehm graduated from Adelphi University (A.B., 1950), George Washington University (M.A., 1969), and received a diploma from the University of Paris in 1949. His foreign languages are German and French. He was born June 25, 1926, in New York, NY.