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Raymond LeRoy Thurston (1913–1981)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Missouri
State of Residence: Missouri
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Haiti)
Appointed: December 7, 1961
Presentation of Credentials: January 4, 1962
Termination of Mission: Normal relations interrupted on May 15, 1963- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on January 30, 1962, after confirmation. Relations had not yet resumed when Thurston left post on May 26, 1963. On June 14, 1963 the Government of Haiti requested Thurston’s recall, and he did not return to post.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Somalia)
Appointed: September 1, 1965
Presentation of Credentials: November 23, 1965
Termination of Mission: Left post on December 15, 1968- Commissioned to the Somali Republic.