The President today announced his intention to nominate John Andrew Burroughs, Jr., of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda. He would succeed Robert G. Houdek.
From 1960 to 1963, Mr. Burroughs was a passport examiner with the Department of State, and from 1963 to 1964, he was assistant chief of the special services branch of the Passport Office. From 1964 to 1966, he was administrative assistant in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State. He was an employee relations specialist in the Office of Civilian Manpower Management at the Department of the Navy, 1966-1970, and Special Assistant (Equal Opportunity) to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1970-1977. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Equal Employment Opportunity at the Department of State, 1977-1981; U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, 1981-1984; and a foreign affairs fellow at the Joint Center for Political Studies, 1984-1985. Since 1985 Mr. Burroughs has been American Consul General in Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
Mr. Burroughs graduated from the University of Iowa (B.A., 1959). He was born July 31, 1936, in Washington, DC. He is married and currently resides in Temple Hills, MD.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of John Andrew Burroughs, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador to Uganda Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/254925