Larry C. Napper

Larry C. Napper (2002)

Larry C. Napper (born November 27, 1947 in San Antonio , Texas ) is a former US diplomat who was ambassador to Latvia from 1995 to 1998 and ambassador to Kazakhstan between 2001 and 2004 .

Life

After attending school, Napper completed an undergraduate degree in history at Texas A&M University , from which he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). He then joined the US Army one from which he in 1972 as a captain (Captain) was eliminated. He completed a subsequent postgraduate degree in government studies and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia in 1974 with a Master of Arts (MA Government and Foreign Affairs).

Napper appeared in 1974 in the foreign service (Foreign Service) and was 1975-1977 Vice-Consul at the Embassy in the Soviet Union and then from 1977 to 1979 Political Officer at the Embassy in Botswana . After serving from 1980 to 1983 as an advisor in the Soviet Union Department of State Department in Washington, DC , between 1983 and 1984 he was on the staff of Lee H. Hamilton , a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Indiana . This was followed by a position as head of the foreign affairs department of the political department of the embassy in the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1986, before he was deputy head of the South Africa department in the foreign ministry between 1986 and 1988 after his return .

In 1989 Napper was first acting ambassador and then between 1989 and 1991 deputy ambassador to Romania. He then acted from 1991 to 1994 as head of the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet States Department in the Foreign Ministry. On August 1, 1995, he succeeded Ints M. Silins as ambassador to Latvia and remained in this post until his replacement on August 27, 1998 by James Howard Holmes . He was then coordinator for US support for Central and Eastern Europe between 1998 and 2001.

Most recently, on September 19, 2001, he succeeded Richard H. Jones as Ambassador to Kazakhstan . He held this post until July 7, 2004, whereupon John Ordway became the new ambassador to Kazakhstan on September 17, 2004 .

Napper, who also taught as a senior lecturer at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University, is married and has two sons.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Larry C. Napper in the nndb (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ints M. Silins	Ambassador to Latvia August 1, 1995-27. August 1998	James Howard Holmes
Richard H. Jones	Ambassador to Kazakhstan September 19, 2001–7. July 2004	John Ordway