Robert Strausz-Hupé -
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Robert Strausz-Hupé (1903–2002)
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Non-career appointee
State of Residence: Pennsylvania
State of Residence: Pennsylvania
- Concurrent Appointments
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Maldives)
Appointed: February 16, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: July 25, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left Colombo December 12, 1971- Also accredited to Sri Lanka; resident at Colombo.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Sri Lanka)
Appointed: February 16, 1970
Presentation of Credentials: May 3, 1970
Termination of Mission: Left post on December 12, 1971- Commissioned to Ceylon. Also accredited to Maldives; resident at Colombo.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Maldives)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Belgium)
Appointed: February 15, 1972
Presentation of Credentials: March 24, 1972
Termination of Mission: Left post on May 22, 1974 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Sweden)
Appointed: April 25, 1974
Presentation of Credentials: May 29, 1974
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 3, 1976 - U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
Appointed: March 3, 1976
Termination of Mission: April 20, 1977 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Turkey)
Appointed: July 27, 1981
Presentation of Credentials: September 7, 1981
Termination of Mission: Left post on May 18, 1989 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Morocco)
- Not commissioned; nomination withdrawn before the Senate acted upon it.