Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to Samuel G. Wise, Jr., While Serving as Deputy Chief of the United States Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

The President today accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Samuel G. Wise, Jr., of Maryland, in his capacity as Deputy Chief of the United States delegation to the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Follow-up Meeting.

Mr. Wise began his career in the Foreign Service in 195,5. He served as vice consul in Palermo, Italy; Noumea, New Caledonia, and Oberammergau, Germany, 1955-1959. Mr. Wise returned to the State Department for a year before his assignment as consul and second secretary in Moscow. He served there until 1963, when he became consul in Trieste. Mr. Wise served in various assignments in the State Department in Washington from 1966 to 1970, when he went to Prague, Czechoslovakia, as First Secretary. In 1971 he went to Rome, Italy, as First Secretary. From 1974 to 1975, Mr. Wise attended the National War College at Fort McNair. He returned to the Department in

1977, when he was assigned to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Washington, DC. Mr. Wise retired from the Foreign Service in 1981 and since that time has been deputy staff director of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Congress.

Mr. Wise graduated from the University of Virginia (B.A, 1951) and Columbia University (M.I.A., 1953). He is married, has four children, and resides in Bethesda, MD. Mr. Wise was born May 11, 1928, in Chicago, IL.