Government – Diplomatic service
Stafford Fitzgerald Haney (1969- )
Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, an international businessman and diplomat, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 3, 1969, but grew up...
Crystal Nix-Hines (1963- )
Crystal Nix-Hines is an attorney, screenwriter, producer, and diplomat who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 23, 1963. Her...
Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. (1920-1995)
Diplomat, Historian, Poet, Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. was born September 30, 1920, in Albany, Georgia but grew up in Cleveland,...
Zindziswa Mandela-Hlongwane (1960-2020)
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Mandela was born on December 23, 1960 in Soweto Township near the South African city of Johannesburg to...
Gerald E. Thomas (1929-2019)
Former Naval officer Gerald Eustis Thomas served as United States Ambassador to Guyana and Kenya. Born in Natick, Massachusetts, on June 23, 1929, to Walter and Leila Thomas,...
John Lovelle Withers, II (1948- )
In 2007, Ambassador John L. Withers II, a second-generation diplomat, was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as ambassador to Albania. Withers was...
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897)
John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia, on December 14, 1829....
William Henry Hunt (1863-1951)
William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been...
Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (1912–2016)
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, more commonly known as E.R. Braithwaite, was a Guyanese-born British-American novelist,...
