Anthony C. E. Quainton

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Anthony Quainton
United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire
In office
February 4, 1976 – June 9, 1978
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byWilliam N. Dale
Succeeded byGoodwin Cooke
Personal details
Born
Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton

April 4, 1934
Washington D.C., U.S.
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
University of Oxford (BLitt)

Anthony Cecil Eden Quainton (April 4, 1934 – July 31, 2023

Central African Empire, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru
.

Early life and education

He was born in

Marshall Scholar
.

Career

Quainton joined the

United States ambassador to the Central African Empire
. Ambassador Quainton presented his credentials on February 20, 1976, and held this post until June 9, 1978.

He then became the

United States ambassador to Kuwait, a post which he held from September 1984 to August 1987. Quainton returned to the United States in September 1987, serving as Deputy inspector general of the Department of State
from September 1987 to November 1989.

Newly-inaugurated President

United States ambassador to Peru
. He presented his credentials on December 11, 1989, and served until September 16, 1992.

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.

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire

February 20, 1976 – July 9, 1978
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Coordinator for Counterterrorism
August 16, 1978 – August 1, 1981
Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Lawrence A. Pezzullo
United States Ambassador to Nicaragua

March 26, 1982 – May 6, 1984
Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Kuwait

September 1984 – August 1987
Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Peru

December 11, 1989 – September 16, 1992
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
September 23, 1992 – December 29, 1995
Succeeded by
Preceded by Director General of the Foreign Service
December 29, 1995 – August 22, 1997
Succeeded by