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Horace Gates Torbert Jr. (1911–2008)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
States of Residence: District of Columbia, Massachusetts
States of Residence: District of Columbia, Massachusetts
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Hungary)
Began Service: February 1961
Ended Service: December 1962 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Somalia)
Appointed: February 17, 1962
Presentation of Credentials: January 31, 1963
Termination of Mission: Left post on August 29, 1965- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on March 12, 1963, after confirmation. Commissioned to the Somali Republic.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Bulgaria)
Appointed: October 6, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: November 4, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left post on January 23, 1973