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Nomination of Robert Maxwell Pringle To Be United States Ambassador to Mall

August 11, 1987

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Maxwell Pringle, of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Mali. He succeeds Robert J. Ryan, Jr.

Mr. Pringle was a photographer with Luther Gulick Camps in South Casco, ME, in 1958. He then worked as a freelance reporter, 1960-1961, before joining the Pat Munroe News Bureau in Washington, DC, as a reporter, 1961-1962. From 1962 to 1967, he did graduate study at Cornell University. Mr. Pringle joined the Foreign Service in 1967 and first served as a staff assistant in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. From 1970 to 1974, he served as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, followed as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, 1974-1977. Mr. Pringle was a Rockefeller Foundation international relations fellow and director of an Indonesia-Philippine project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1977-1979. He returned to Washington in 1979 for economic training at the Foreign Service Institute, before joining the economic policy staff in the Bureau of African Affairs, 1979-1983. From 1983 to 1985, he served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and since 1985 has been deputy chief of mission at Port Moresby, Papua

New Guinea.

Mr. Pringle graduated from Harvard College (B.A., 1958) and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1967). He served in the U.S. Army, 1958-1960. He is articulate in Indonesian, French, and Melanesian Pidgin. Mr. Pringle was born November 12, 1936, in New York, NY. He is married, has two children, and resides in Alexandria, VA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Robert Maxwell Pringle To Be United States Ambassador to Mall Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/252930

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