Thomas Patrick Melady

Thomas Patrick Melady (born March 4, 1927 in Norwich , Connecticut , † January 6, 2014 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat .

Life

Thomas Melady served in the US Army from 1945 to 1947 . In 1950 he graduated from Duquesne University with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1955 from St. John's University with an MA and a Ph.D. from. From 1959 to 1967 Melady was an associate professor at St. John's University and president of the Africa Service Institute in New York. From 1966 to 1969 he was an associate professor at Fordham University . Melady advised the National Urban League in New York and was President of Seton Hall University .

In 1969, US President Richard Nixon appointed him US Ambassador to Burundi . In 1970 he was senior advisor to the US delegation to the United Nations General Assembly . From 1972 to 1973 he was the US Ambassador to Uganda . On March 5, 1986, US President Ronald Reagan appointed Melady as USAID's private sector coordinator . President George HW Bush named him United States Ambassador to the Holy See in 1989 .

In 1994 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC From 1976 to 1986 he was President of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield . From 2002 Melady worked for the consulting firm The Institute of World Politics in Washington.

Thomas Melady was Knight of Obedience (GCMOb) of the Order of Malta . In 2012 he was the representative of the Roman Curia for Disarmament Negotiations at the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). He was an advisor to Pope John Paul II during the collapse of the Soviet Union .

He was deputy governor of the Order of Constantine in the USA. He was involved in the national supervisory body of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (National Conference for Community and Justice) and the International League for Human Rights .

Melady has published 17 books and more than 180 articles on Africa / Asia and Europe. He was married to Dr. Margaret Badum Melady, former President of the American University of Rome ; there are two daughters from the marriage.

Honors

• Commander of the Papal Order of Gregory (1983)
• Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Pius by Pope John Paul II (1991)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Malta (2007)
• National awards and honors from Senegal , Liberia , Cameroon , Madagascar and Croatia
• 30 honorary doctorates

Fonts

• Western Policy and the Third World
• Uganda: The Asian Exiles
• The United States and the Vatican in World Affairs
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Future? Part II.
• Profiles of African Leaders, Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa
• The Ambassador's Story
• Ten African Heroes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melady, former ambassador to Vatican, dies
2. ↑ USA President 1981-1989: Reagan Ronald, Office of the Federal Register, Ronald Reagan, Volume 1 , Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, 1986
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Background on Ambassador Thomas Melady , accessed on January 8, 2014 (English)
4. ↑ Federal Association Knight Named By Vatican to UN Mission ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Order of Malta Moment, April 13, 2012 (English) 
5. ↑ Patricia Zapor: [1] , National Catholic Reporter, January 7, 2014 (English)
6. ↑ Papal Honoras: Member of the Order of St. Gregory ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 8, 2014 
7. ↑ Papal Honoras: Member of the Order of Pius IX ( Memento of the original of July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 8, 2014 
8. ^ State: Issue 318, United States. Dept. of State, 1989

Web links

• Matt Schudel: Thomas Melady, diplomat who helped set path for Vatican recognition of Israel, dies at 86 , The Washington Post , January 8, 2014

predecessor	Office	successor
George W. Renchard	US Ambassador to Bujumbura / Burundi 1969–1972	Robert L. Yost
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr.	US Ambassador to Kampala / Uganda 1972–1973	David Crane Halstead
Frank Shakespeare	US Ambassador to the Holy See / Vatican 1989–1993	Raymond Flynn