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James Franklin Collins (1939–)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Illinois
State of Residence: Illinois
- Ambassador at Large
Appointed: December 19, 1995
Entry on Duty: December 26, 1995
Termination of Appointment: August 1, 1997- Commissioned as Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary on the New Independent States.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Russia)
Appointed: August 1, 1996
Presentation of Credentials: January 26, 1998
Termination of Mission: Relinquished charge July 10, 2001