The President today announced his intention to nominate H. Allen Holmes, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador at Large for Burdensharing at the Department of State. This is a new position.
Since 1985 Ambassador Holmes has served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs. Prior to this, he served as Ambassador to Portugal, 1982 - 1985; as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, 1979 - 1982; as deputy chief of mission in Rome, Italy, 1977 - 1979; and as Director of the Office of NATO Affairs at the Department of State, 1975 - 1977. Ambassador Holmes joined the Foreign Service in 1958.
Ambassador Holmes graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1954), and he attended the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Paris, 1957 - 1958. In 1989 he was awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award. Ambassador Holmes served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1954 - 1957. He was born January 31, 1933, in Bucharest, Romania, to American parents. Ambassador Holmes is married, has two children, and currently resides in Washington, DC.
George Bush, Nomination of H. Allen Holmes To Be Ambassador at Large for Burdensharing Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/263932