William Robert Casey

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William Robert Casey (right) alongside Ronald Reagan (1982)

William Robert Casey (born December 15, 1944 in Denver ) is an American mining engineer and diplomat .

Life

William Robert Casey joined in 1969 to study at the Colorado School of Mines as a Bachelor of Engineering from.

He then worked for various mining companies in Salt Lake City , Flin Flon , San Mateo , Boise and Denver. From 1977 to 1979 he worked for the mineral oil company Conoco as a project manager in Denver, Paris and Niger , where he explored the company's possibilities for participating in uranium mining . This effort came in 1979 by the core meltdown accident in the nuclear power plant Three Mile Iceland to a halt. Casey became the manager of Rocky Mountain Energy Co. in Broomfield in 1979 .

He settled in Longmont , where he was involved in the Republican Party . Under the Republican US President Ronald Reagan , William Robert Casey succeeded James Bishop as the United States' Ambassador to Niger in 1982 . During his tenure as ambassador, the diplomatic goal of the US government was achieved for the uranium producer Niger to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . Casey was replaced as ambassador to Niger in 1985 by Richard Bogosian .

William Robert Casey is married with four children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nomination of William Robert Casey, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Niger. November 24, 1981. (No longer available online.) Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, formerly the original ; accessed on January 4, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.reaganlibrary.archives.gov  
  2. ^ A b The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project: Ambassador E. Michael Southwick. (PDF) Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy. Initial interview date: May 4, 2004. 2009, pp. 65–66 , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Chiefs of Mission for Niger. Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ronald Reagan Appointee Ambassador William Casey Endorses Craig Miller. In: BizPac Review. July 17, 2010, accessed January 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Casey, William Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mining engineer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver