United States Ambassador to Guinea Nomination of Oliver S. Crosby.

The President today announced that he will nominate Oliver S. Crosby, of Tacoma, Wash., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Guinea. He would replace William C. Harrop, resigned.

Crosby was born April 27, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1947. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1946.

Crosby joined the Foreign Service in 1947 and served as consular-political officer in Athens until 1950. From 1950 to 1952, he was political officer in Tabriz, and in 1952-53 he took German language and area training at Harvard University.

From 1953 to 1958, Crosby was transportation officer, then economic officer in Berlin. He was at the State Department from 1958 to 1962 as an intelligence research specialist, then a foreign affairs officer. He was political officer in Nicosia from 1962 to 1964 and attended the National War College in 1964-65.

From 1965 to 1968, Crosby was deputy chief of mission in Bamako. He was country director for southern African affairs at the State Department from 1968 to 1972, and since 1972 has been deputy chief of mission in Lagos.