Nomination of Stephen R. Lyne To Be United States Ambassador to Ghana

The President today announced his intention to nominate Stephen R. Lyne, of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana. He succeeds Robert E. Fritts.

Mr. Lyne joined the Foreign Service in 1961 and following training was assigned as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He served there until 1964, when he took a sabbatical to attend Stanford University. He returned in 1965 and was assigned as a political officer in Saigon, Vietnam. From 1966 to 1967, Mr. Lyne was vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Auckland, New Zealand. He returned to Washington and served in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Section. In 1971 he became deputy chief of mission in Libreville, Gabon. From Gabon, Mr. Lyne returned to Washington, DC, and served for 2 years as a congressional intern at the American Political Science Association. In 1975 he went to Algiers, Algeria, as deputy chief of mission, serving there until 1977, when he became a member of the Senior Seminar m Washington, DC. From 1978 to 1980, he was Office Director in the East Asian Bureau for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. In 1980 he became deputy chief of mission in Canberra, Australia, to be followed by deputy chief of mission in Beirut, Lebanon, 1984-1985. Since 1985 Mr. Lyne has been diplomat in residence and adjunct professor at Boston University's Center for International Relations.

He graduated from Amherst College (B.A., 1958) and Stanford University (M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1965). Mr. Lyne is married, has two children, and resides in Boston, MA. He was born May 20, 1935, in Fall River, MA.