Anthony C. E. Quainton
Anthony Quainton | |
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United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire | |
In office February 4, 1976 – June 9, 1978 | |
President | Gerald Ford |
Preceded by | William N. Dale |
Succeeded by | Goodwin Cooke |
Personal details | |
Born | Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton April 4, 1934 Washington D.C., U.S. |
Education | Princeton University (BA) University of Oxford (BLitt) |
Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (April 4, 1934 – July 31, 2023.
Early life and education
He was born in
Career
Quainton joined the
He then became the
Newly-inaugurated President
After his tenure in a Peru, Bush then nominated Quainton to be assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security, an office he held from September 23, 1992, until December 29, 1995. President Bill Clinton then named him director general of the Foreign Service which Quainton held from December 29, 1995, to August 22, 1997.
In 1997, Quainton left government service and joined the Una Chapman Cox Foundation. He then became president and CEO of the National Policy Association. Since 2003, he has been the Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence at the American University School of International Service. He retired in 2019 but continued to teach his signatures courses on diplomatic practice and Peru until 2023.
Personal life
While in England, he married a fellow Marshall Scholar, Susan Long, in 1957. He spent 1958–59 working as a research assistant at St Antony's College, Oxford.
References
- ^ https://www.devolfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Anthony-Cecil-Eden-Quainton?obId=28613535
- ^ The Tampa Tribune, Feb. 29th 1980.