William B. Taylor Jr.

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William B. Taylor

William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr. (* 1947 ) is an American diplomat . Between June 2019 and January 2020 he was Chargé d' affaires of the American Embassy in Kiev . He actually held the office of Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine between 2006 and 2009 .

Life

William B. Taylor was born in 1947 as one of the five children of William Brockenbrough Newton Taylor (1925-2011) and his wife Nancy Dare (née Aitcheson) (1925-2015). The father was director of research and development for the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and worked a. a. in the Apollo program .

Like his father, Taylor graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated from the top one percent in his class in 1969. The following study at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University he finished with a Master of Public Policy . He then served as an infantry platoon leader and commander of the US Army in Vietnam and Germany. He later worked for Senator Bill Bradley .

He served in Jerusalem as the US government representative for the Middle East Quartet , was Special Coordinator of the US State Department in Kabul for international and US aid to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003, and oversaw reconstruction in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 From 1992 to 2002, he coordinated US support for the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. From May 30, 2006 to May 23, 2009, he was the United States Ambassador to Ukraine . Most recently he was Executive Vice President at the United States Institute of Peace and Senior Advisor to the American-Ukrainian Business Council. After the American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch , was recalled in May 2019, Taylor took over as Chargé d'affaires on June 18, 2019.

Ukraine affair

In the course of preliminary investigations into a possible impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump due to the Ukraine affair , he testified on October 22, 2019 that Trump had withheld military aid to Ukraine until Ukrainian President Zelenskyi agreed against Joe and Hunter Biden to investigate. Taylor reported on a phone call with Gordon Sondland in which Trump told Sondland that he wanted Zelenskyi to publicly announce a Ukraine investigation into Burisma Holdings and alleged Ukraine interference in the 2016 presidential election . Sondland also said that everything depends on such a declaration, including military security support. Taylor further testified that he had known since mid-July that a meeting between Zelensky and Trump was on the condition of an investigation into Burisma, and that condition was driven by Rudolph Giuliani . Media reports see these statements as confirmation of a quid pro quo . MEP Debbie Wasserman Schultz commented that Taylor's statement could not lead to any other conclusion than that Trump had abused his power.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Find a Grave: William Brockenbrough Taylor
  2. ↑ Legacy.com: William Taylor
  3. ^ Find a Grave: Nancy Aitcheson Taylor
  4. ↑ Legacy.com: Nancy Taylor
  5. ↑ Prabook - World Biographical Encyclopedia: William Brockenbrough Newton Taylor
  6. ↑ William B. Taylor Jr. (1947–) on history.state.gov ; accessed on October 1, 2019
  7. ↑ a b official curriculum vitae on the website of the American Embassy in Kiev; accessed on October 1, 2019
  8. ↑ Ambassador William B. Taylor returns to Ukraine to lead US mission - Kyiv Post, June 18, 2019; accessed on October 1, 2019
  9. ↑ William B. Taylor Jr.
  10. ↑ Sanjana Karanth: Top Diplomat Confirms There Was Quid Pro Quo Demand In Trump's Ukraine Call: Reports . In: Huffpost . October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, William B. Junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, William Brockenbrough, Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1947