The President today announced that he will nominate Harold E. Horan, of Bellaire, Tex., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Malawi. He would replace Robert A. Stevenson, who has resigned.
Horan was born June 16, 1927, in Houston, Tex. He received a B.B.A. (1950) and an LL.D. (1953) from the University of Houston. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1945 to 1946.
Horan joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and served in Tehran, Florence, Bamako, and at the State Department. From 1969 to 1972, he was an international relations officer at the State Department, and in 1972-73 he attended the National War College.
From 1973 to 1976, Horan was detailed to the National Security Council. Since 1976 he has been Deputy Chief of Mission in Monrovia.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Malawi Nomination of Harold E Horan. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247982