 AKA Jack Foust Matlock, Jr.
Born:1-Oct-1929
Birthplace:Greensboro, NC
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation:Diplomat Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91 Entered the Foreign Service in 1956. Wife: Rebecca Burrum (five children)
University:BA, Duke University (1950)
University:MA Slavic Languages, Columbia University (1952)
Professor:Russian Language & Literature, Dartmouth College (1953-56)
Professor:Practice of International Diplomacy, Columbia University (1991-96)
Professor:Public & International Affairs, Princeton University (2001-04)
Professor:International Relations, Hamilton College (2006)
US Ambassador to the USSR (1987-91)
US National Security Council Senior Director of European and Soviet Affairs (1983-86)
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1981-83)
US Ambassador to the USSR ad interim (1981)
US State Department Deputy Director, Foreign Service Institute (1979-80)
US State Department Deputy Chief of Mission, Moscow, USSR (1974-78)
US State Department Director, Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1971-74)
US State Department Deputy Chief of Mission, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1969-70)
US State Department Principal officer, Zanzibar (1967-69)
US State Department Political officer, Accra, Ghana (1963-67)
US State Department Political officer, Moscow, USSR (1961-63)
US State Department Consular officer, Vienna, Austria (1958-60)
US State Department Intelligence research analyst (1956-58)
American Academy of Diplomacy
Institute for Advanced Study Professor (1996-2001)
ABC consultant
Author of books:
Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995, history)
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004, history)
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