Murat W. Williams Explained

Murat W. Williams
Office:US Ambassador to El Salvador
Term Start:February 21, 1961
Term End:July 4, 1964
President:John F. Kennedy
Successor:Raúl H. Castro
Predecessor:Thorsten V. Kalijarvi

Murat Willis Williams (1919 in Richmond, Virginia[1] – March 31, 1994 in Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American Career Foreign Service officer who was Ambassador to El Salvador from 1961 to 1964.[2]

A graduate of the University of Virginia and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford for three years, Williams served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II before joining the Foreign Service. Williams died of a stroke in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 79.

References

  1. Web site: 5 December 1990 . The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR MURAT WILLIAMS . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240716021701/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Williams,%20Murat.toc.pdf . 16 July 2024 . 6 August 2024 . Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training.
  2. News: Murat W. Williams; Ambassador, 79 . 19 January 2020 . The New York Times . April 3, 1994.

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