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.