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William E. Schaufele Jr.

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William Schaufele
United States Ambassador to Poland
In office
March 30, 1978 – September 11, 1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byRichard Davies
Succeeded byFrancis J. Meehan
7th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
In office
December 19, 1975 – July 17, 1977
PresidentGerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Preceded byNathaniel Davis
Succeeded byRichard M. Moose
7th Inspector General of the Department of State
In office
April 16, 1975 – November 29, 1975
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byJames S. Sutterlin
Succeeded byRobert M. Sayre
United States Ambassador to Upper Volta
In office
October 16, 1969 – July 10, 1971
PresidentRichard Nixon
Preceded byElliott Skinner
Succeeded byDonald B. Easum
Personal details
Born
William Everett Schaufele Jr.

(1923-12-07)December 7, 1923
Lakewood, Ohio, U.S.
DiedJanuary 17, 2008(2008-01-17) (aged 84)
Salisbury, Connecticut, U.S.
EducationYale University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)

William Everett Schaufele Jr. (December 7, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American diplomat and official at the United States Department of State.

Life

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Schaufele was born in Lakewood, Ohio, the son of William Elias Schaufele and Lillian Bergen.[1] He briefly attended Yale University in 1942–43, before enlisting in the United States Army in March 1943.[1] During World War II, he served in the 10th Armored Division, a part of the Third United States Army, which was commanded by George S. Patton.[1] He participated in the Siege of Bastogne, a part of the larger Battle of the Bulge.[1] Following the war, Schaufele resumed his studies at Yale, graduating in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in Government and International Affairs.[1] He then enrolled in the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, from which he received an M.A. in 1950.[1]

After graduation, Schaufele joined the United States Foreign Service in 1950.[2] His first posting was in Germany as a resident officer in Frankfurt am Main (1950); a resident officer in Pfaffenhausen (1950–52); a resident officer in Augsburg (1952); a labor officer in Düsseldorf (1952); and, finally, as an economic and consular officer in Munich (1953–56).[1] He returned to the United States in 1956, taking up an economic affairs position in the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C., and joining the faculty of the Foreign Service Institute in 1957.[1] Schaufele returned to the field in 1959, serving as a political/labor officer in Casablanca until 1963.[1]

In 1963, Schaufele opened an American consulate in Bukavu in the Republic of the Congo, which had gained its independence from Belgium in 1960[1] He returned to the United States in 1964, serving first as the head of the State Department's Congo desk, and then in a series of increasingly senior positions in the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs.[1]

On September 29, 1969, President Richard Nixon appointed Schaufele as United States Ambassador to Upper Volta, a post he held until July 10, 1971.[1] Nixon then named Ambassador Schaufele as the U.S.'s representative to the United Nations Security Council (with the rank of ambassador).[1] On December 19, 1975, President Gerald Ford appointed Schaufele as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, a post he held until July 17, 1977.[1] President Jimmy Carter appointed Schaufele United States Ambassador to Poland on February 3, 1978.[1] In that capacity, he was present in Poland for the election of Carol Cardinal Wojtila, Archbishop of Kraków, as Pope John Paul II and for the rise of the Solidarity movement.[1]

Schaufele retired in 1980 with the rank of career minister.[1] In retirement, he served as president of the Foreign Policy Association until 1985.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Obituary in Foreign Service Journal, May 2008. Archived August 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM E. SCHAUFELE, JR" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 19 November 1994. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Upper Volta
1969–1971
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Poland
1978–1980
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
1975–1977
Succeeded by