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Nomination of Robert L. Barry To Be United States Ambassador to Bulgaria

October 23, 1981

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert L. Barry, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to Bulgaria. He would succeed Jack Richard Perry.

Mr. Barry served in the United States Navy in 1957-60. He entered the Foreign Service in 1962 and was vice counsel in Zagreb in 1963-65. In 1965-67 he was in the Department of State as international relations officer in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs. He studied the Russian language at Munich (Garmisch) in 1967-68. He was consular officer, then political officer in Moscow (1968-70), political officer at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York 1970-71, and deputy principal officer in Leningrad (1971-73). He was on detail to the International Communication Agency as Director of the U.S.S.R. Division of the Voice of America in 1973-75. In the Department of State he was Deputy Director of the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1975-77), Director of the Office of United Nations Political Affairs (1977-78), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1978-79), and since 1979 he has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Mr. Barry graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A, 1956) and Columbia University (M.A., 1962). He is married, has three children, and resides in Rindge, N.H. He was born August 28, 1934, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert L. Barry To Be United States Ambassador to Bulgaria Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246523

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