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Nomination of Thomas W.M. Smith To Be United States Ambassador to Nigeria

January 17, 1984

The President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas W.M. Smith, of Maine, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He would succeed Thomas R. Pickering.

Mr. Smith served in the United States Marine Corps in 1953-1956 as first lieutenant. He entered the Foreign Service in 1956 as an exchange program officer in the Department. In 1958-1960 he was economic officer in Tunis and attended economic studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1960-1961. He was finance officer in Paris (1961-1966) and economic officer in Lagos (1966-1968). In the Department he was Chief of the Division of United Nations Economic Affairs in 1968-1971. In 1971-1972 he attended the National War College. He was Deputy Chief of the Economic Section in London in 1972-1975 and Director of the Office of West African Affairs in the Department in 1975-1979. In 1979-1983 he was Ambassador to Ghana.

Mr. Smith graduated from Harvard College (A.B., 1951), Cambridge University (B.A., 1953; M.A., 1956), and the University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1970). His foreign language is French. He was born April 18, 1930, in Boston, MA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Thomas W.M. Smith To Be United States Ambassador to Nigeria Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260796

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