Nomination of George Roberts Andrews To Be United States Ambassador to Mauritius

The President today announced his intention to nominate George Roberts Andrews, of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to Mauritius. He would succeed Robert C. F. Gordon.

Mr. Andrews entered the Foreign Service in 1954 as consular officer in Hamburg. He served in Paris as consular officer (1956-1958) and political officer (1958-1959). In the Department he was personnel officer (1959-1962) and desk officer for Belgium and Luxembourg (1962-1964). He was political officer in Stockholm (1964-1967), chief of the political section in Dakar (1967-1970), charge d'affaires in Conakry (1970), and consul general in Strasbourg (1970-1971). In 1971-1974 he was Deputy Assistant and Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala in 1974-1978. He attended the executive seminar in national and international affairs at the Foreign Service Institute in 1978-1979. In 1979-1983 he was chief of senior officers personnel in the Bureau of Personnel in the Department.

Mr. Andrews graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1953) and the Universite de Strasbourg in France (M.A., 1954). His foreign languages are French, Spanish, German, and Swedish. He was born February 26, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, of American parents.