1997-09-26 William Twaddell Named Ambassador to Nigeria (fwd)

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

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                               THE WHITE HOUSE
  
                        Office of the Press Secretary
                               (Houston, Texas)
  ________________________________________________________________________
  For Immediate Release                                 September 26, 1997
  
  
             PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES WILLIAM H. TWADDELL AS U.S. 
                AMBASSADOR TO THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
  
  
   President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate William H. 
  Twaddell, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be United 
  States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
  
   Ambassador Twaddell, of Rhode Island, joined the Foreign Service in 
  1969.  He was assigned as Vice Consul to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with 
  consular accreditation as well in the countries of the lower Arabian 
  Gulf.  He then served at the Embassy in Caracas, Venezuala, as a 
  Commercial Officer.  Afterwards, he worked in the Department of State 
  as a Petroleum Analyst before his assignment to the Department's 
  Executive Secretariat.  In 1976, he joined the Transition Team for the 
  Carter Administration and then worked as a Special Assistant to 
  Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.  
  
   Assigned as Deputy Chief of Mission in Maputo, Mozambique, Ambassador 
  Twaddell served for three years as Interim Charge d'Affaires until 
  1983.  He was then detailed to the Coast Guard Academy faculty.  That 
  tour was interrupted by temporary assignments to be the first Director 
  of the U.S. Liaison Office in Windhoek, Namibia in 1984, and the 
  Interim Charge d'Affaires in Guinea Bissau in 1985.  He was Deputy 
  Chief of Missions in Bamako, Mali from 1985 to 1987.  Ambassador 
  Twaddell served as Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania 
  from 1988 to 1991.  The following year he was Diplomat-in-residence at 
  the University of the District of Columbia and Georgetown University.  
  He was Chief of Mission in Monrovia, Liberia from 1992 to 1995.  Since 
  1995 he has been Deputy Assistant Secretary in the African Bureau of 
  the State Department. 
   
   Ambassador Twaddell was a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in 
  Brazil upon graduation from Brown University in 1963.  He also served 
  in the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1967 and was a general assignment 
  reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Daily News from 
  1968 to 1969.  He speaks Arabic, Portuguese, French and Spanish.  
  
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