The President today announced his intention to nominate Paul D. Taylor, of New York, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. He would succeed Lowell C. Kilday.
Since 1985 Mr. Taylor has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1981 to 1984, he was deputy chief of mission in Guatemala and Charge d'Affaires in 1984. Mr. Taylor entered the Foreign Service of the United States in 1963. He has been assigned to posts in Quito, Ecuador; Bangkok, Thailand; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Madrid, Spain; and Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Mr. Taylor graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1960) and Harvard University (M.P.A., 1967). He was born May 16, 1939, in Lockport, NY. Mr. Taylor is married, has three children, and resides in Chevy Chase, MD.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Paul D. Taylor To Be United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/253909