United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Nomination of Peter Jon de Vos.

The President today announced that he will nominate Peter Jon de Vos, of North Key Largo, Fla., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and to the Republic of Cape Verde. He would replace Edward Marks, who is being assigned to another post. De Vos has been Deputy Director of Southern African Affairs at the State Department since 1979 and has been a Foreign Service officer since 1962.

He was born December 24, 1938, in San Diego, Calif. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1960 and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1962.

De Vos joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and was posted in Recife, Naples, Luanda, and at the State Department. He was political officer in Sao Paulo from 1970 to 1971 and in Brasilia from 1971 to 1973.

From 1973 to 1975, he was Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1975 to 1978, he was political officer in Athens. In 1978-79 he attended the National War College.