Nomination of Reginald Bartholomew To Be United States Ambassador to Lebanon

The President today announced his intention to nominate Reginald Bartholomew, of Virginia, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon. He would succeed Robert Sherwood Dillon.

Mr. Bartholomew was an instructor in social science at the University of Chicago (1961-1964) and in government at Wesleyan University in 1964-1968. He was with the Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., as Assistant Deputy Director of Policy Plans for National Security Council Affairs (1968-1972) and Director of Policy Plans for National Security Council Affairs and Task Force on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (1973-1974). He first served at the Department of State in 1974 as Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff. He was Deputy Director (1979) and Director (1979-1981) of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. In 1977-1979 he was on detail to the National Security Council at the White House. He was Special Cyprus Coordinator, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, in the Department of State in 1981-1982. Since 1982 he has been United States Special Negotiator for United States-Greek Defense and Economic Cooperation (base) Negotiations in the Department. He was accorded the personal rank of Ambassador on December 17, 1982.

Mr. Bartholomew graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1958) and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1960). His foreign languages are French, German, and Italian. He was born February 17, 1936, in Portland, Maine.