Horace Gates Torbert Jr. (1911–2008)

Career Foreign Service Officer
States of Residence: District of Columbia, Massachusetts

1. Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Hungary)
   Began Service: February 1961
   Ended Service: December 1962
2. 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.
3. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Bulgaria)
   Appointed: October 6, 1970
   Presentation of Credentials: November 4, 1970
   Termination of Mission: Left post on January 23, 1973