Karl Lott Rankin - People - Department History
Karl Lott Rankin (1898–1991)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
State of Residence: Maine
State of Residence: Maine
- Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (China)
Began Service: August 1950
Ended Service: April 1953 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (China)
Appointed: February 27, 1953
Presentation of Credentials: April 2, 1953
Termination of Mission: Appointment terminated December 30, 1957- Commissioned to China; resident at Taipei.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Appointed: December 13, 1957
Presentation of Credentials: February 19, 1958
Termination of Mission: Left post on April 22, 1961- Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; recommissioned on January 29, 1958, after confirmation. Commissioned to Yugoslavia.