Edward J. Perkins

b. 1928, Louisiana - d. 2020, District of Columbia

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Service History

  • Career Foreign Service Officer

  • US Ambassador to Australia, 1993 – 1996

  • US Representative to the United Nations, 1992 – 1993

  • Director General of the Foreign Service, 1989 – 1992

  • US Ambassador to South Africa, 1968 – 1989

  • US Ambassador to Liberia, 1985 – 1986

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