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Mauritania
West Africa
U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Mauritania
Henry S. Villard (Ambassador 1960) Philip M. Kaiser (Ambassador 1961-64) Geoffrey Whitney Lewis (Ambassador 1965-67) Richard W. Murphy (Ambassador 1971) Holsey Gates Handyside (Ambassador 1975) Elmer Gregory Kryza (Ambassador 1977) Edward Lionel Peck (Ambassador 1982) Robert L. Pugh (Ambassador 1985) William H. Twaddell (Ambassador 1988) Gordon S. Brown (Ambassador 1991) Dorothy Myers Sampas (Ambassador 1994) Timberlake Foster (Ambassador 1997) John W. Limbert (Ambassador 2000) |
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political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872 |
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