The President today announced his intention to nominate Hume Alexander Horan, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Sudan. He would succeed C. William Kontos.
Since 1980 Mr. Horan has been Ambassador to the United Republic of Cameroon and served concurrently as Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in 1980-1981. Previously he was Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs in 1978-1980; member of the Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs at the Foreign Service Institute in 1977-1978; Deputy Chief of Mission in Jidda in 1972-1977; political officer in Amman in 1970-1971; desk officer for Libya in 1967-1969; and personnel officer in the Bureau of African Affairs in 1966-1967.
Mr. Horan served in the United States Army in 1954-1956. He graduated from Harvard University (A.B., 1958; A.M., 1963). He was born August 13, 1934, in Washington, D.C. He is married, has three children, and resides in Cranford, NJ.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Hume Alexander Horan To Be United States Ambassador to Sudan Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262419