Albert William Sherer Jr. | |
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| 4thUnited States Ambassador toTogo | |
| In office September 13, 1967 – March 5, 1970 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | William Witman II |
| Succeeded by | Dwight Dickinson |
| 1stUnited States Ambassador toEquatorial Guinea | |
| In office September 13, 1967 – March 5, 1970 | |
| President | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | Lewis Hoffacker |
| 5thUnited States Ambassador toGuinea | |
| In office March 31, 1970 – December 21, 1971[1] | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Robinson McIlvaine |
| Succeeded by | Terence Todman |
| 21stUnited States Ambassador toCzechoslovakia | |
| In office February 15, 1972 – July 29, 1975 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Malcolm Toon |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Ryan Byrne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 16, 1916 |
| Died | December 27, 1986(1986-12-27) (aged 70)[2] |
| Profession | Diplomat |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1941–1945 |
Albert William Sherer Jr. (January 19, 1916 – December 27, 1986)[3] was an American diplomat.
In 1938 he received a B.A. fromYale University and an LL.B. in 1941 fromHarvard University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1941 to 1945.
In 1946 to 1949 under the U.S. State Department, Sherer was a commercial officer inTangier,Morocco and he was temporarily assigned toCasablanca, Morocco, as consular and legal officer from 1947 to 1948. After that in 1949 to 1951, he was political officer inBudapest, Hungary.
In 1951 from 1955, Sherer was theRomanian desk officer in the Office of Eastern European Affairs at the State Department. He was political officer inPrague, thenCzechoslovakia, from 1955 to 1957 and an officer in charge of Polish, Baltic, and Czech Affairs in the office of Eastern European Affairs from 1957 to 1960.
From 1960 to 1961 he attended the Bowie Seminar for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was Deputy Chief of Mission inWarsaw,Poland, from 1961 to 1966, and appointed Ambassador toTogo from 1967 until 1970. In 1968 and 1969, he was also accredited as Ambassador toEquatorial Guinea. Sherer was also Ambassador toGuinea from 1970 to 1972, Ambassador toCzechoslovakia from 1972 to 1975 and Chief of the U.S. delegation to CSCE from 1974 and 1975.
After ambassadorship, from 1975 to 1977, Sherer was Deputy Representative of theUnited States in theSecurity Council of the United Nations. In 1975 he served as Alternate U.S. Representative to the Seventh Special Session and the Thirtieth Session of theUnited Nations General Assembly, and in 1976 he served as Alternate U.S. Representative to the Thirty-first Session of the General Assembly. In 1977 he was Head of the U.S. delegation to the preparatory meeting inBelgrade,Serbia, of the CSCE.[4]
His daughter Susan Sherer was married to journalistPeter Osnos.[5] His grandson is journalistEvan Osnos.
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromU.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State.
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| Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Togo 1967–1970 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by office established | United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea 1967–1970 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Guinea 1970–1971 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1972–1975 | Succeeded by |
| Czechoslovakia (1919–1992) |  | |
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| Czech Republic (1993–present) | ||
