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Notable Former Volunteers / Foreign Service:
Notable former Peace Corps Volunteers in Foreign Service.
 
Frank Almaguer, former ambassador to Honduras (Belize 1967-69)
 
Richard A. Boucher, assistant secretary of state, South and Central Asian affairs, (Senegal 1973-75)
 
Raymond Burghardt, director, American Institute of Taiwan (Colombia 1968-69)
 
Johnnie Carson, ambassador to Kenya (Tanzania 1965-68)
 
Greg Engle, ambassador to Togo (South Korea 1980-81)
 
Richard Erdman, ambassador to Algeria (Turkey 1967-69)
 
Robert Gelbard, ambassador to Indonesia (Bolivia 1964-66)
 
David N. Greenlee, ambassador to Bolivia; previously ambassador to Paraguay, (Bolivia 1965-67)
 
Robert W. Fitts, ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (Malaysia 1970-72)
 
Tony Hall, ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies (Thailand 1966-67)
 
Christopher R. Hill, assistant secretary of state, East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Cameroon 1974-76)
 
Thomas Neil Hull, III, ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone 1968-70)
 
Vicki Huddleston, ambassador to Mali (Peru 1964-66)
 
Cameron R. Hume, ambassador to the Republic of South Africa; previously ambassador to Algeria (Libya 1968-69)
 
John Francis Keane, ambassador to Paraguay (Colombia 1966-69)
 
Darryl Johnson, ambassador to Thailand (Thailand 1962-65)
 
James Mack, deputy assistant secretary of state, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (Honduras 1963-65)
 
R. Niels Marquardt, ambassador to the Republics of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea (Rwanda 1977-79)
 
Larry L. Palmer, ambassador to Honduras (Liberia, 1971-1973)
 
Don McConnell, ambassador to Eritrea (Nigeria 1963-65)
 
Richard Allan Roth, ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau (Burkina Faso, 1969-72)
 
R. Barrie Walkley, ambassador to Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe (Somalia, 1967-69)
 
 

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