Everett Briggs

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Everett Ellis Briggs (born April 6, 1934 in Havana , Cuba ) is a former US diplomat who was ambassador several times, among other things .

Life

Everett Ellis Briggs, son of the diplomat and ambassador Ellis Ormsbee Briggs and his wife Lucy Barnard Briggs several times , visited the Colegio De La Salle in Miramar . After attending school, he began an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College , which he completed in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then joined the US State Department in 1956 and was Vice Consul at the Embassy in Bolivia between 1958 and 1960 . After various other positions at home and abroad, he attended the National War College (NWC) in Fort Lesley J. McNair between 1971 and 1972 . Simultaneous postgraduate studies at George Washington University , he completed 1972 with a Master of Science (MS). After he was Consul General in Luanda from 1972 to 1974 , he acted as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Paraguay from 1974 to 1978 and as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Colombia from 1978 to 1979 . He was then from 1979 to 1981 Head of the Department for Mexico in the State Department and from 1981 to 1982 Deputy Head of the Inter-American Affairs (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs ) in the State Department.

Briggs was first appointed ambassador on September 30, 1982, and on October 29, 1982, succeeding Ambler Holmes Moss, Jr. presented his letter of accreditation as United States Ambassador to Panama . He remained in that post until 24 February 1986, and was then of , Jr. Arthur H. Davis replaced. He himself was appointed ambassador to Honduras on October 16, 1986 , where he succeeded John Arthur Ferch on November 4, 1986 with his credentials. He held this office until June 15, 1989, when he was replaced by Cresencio S. Arcos, Jr. Most recently, he was appointed Ambassador of the United States to Portugal on April 1, 1990 , and presented his accreditation there on May 25, 1990 as the successor to Edward Morgan Rowell . In this post he remained until September 3, 1993, whereupon Elizabeth Frawley Bagley took over his successor.

Ambassador Briggs was at times advisor to the National Security Council ( NSC ) and was also involved in the American Academy of Diplomacy , the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Republican Institute . He was also a board member of the US Panama Business Council. His marriage to Sally Soast on September 9, 1955 resulted in five children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Panama on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  2. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Honduras on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  3. ↑ Chiefs of Mission for Portugal on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
  4. ↑ Between September 1993 and September 1994, Chargé Sharon P. Wilkinson Head of the Embassy in Portugal on an interim basis.
personal data
SURNAME Briggs, Everett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briggs, Everett Ellis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba