Nomination of Timothy Lathrop Towell To Be United States Ambassador to Paraguay

The President today announced his intention to nominate Timothy Lathrop Towell, of Ohio, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class One, as Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay. He would succeed Clyde D. Taylor.

Mr. Towell joined the Foreign Service in 1963. He has served as vice consul in Valencia, Spain, 1963-1965; second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spain, 1965-1966; and consul for the U.S. consulate in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1967-1968. In 1968 he was detailed to the Agency for International Development at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. He returned to Washington and served as Bolivian desk officer at the Department of State, 1968-1970, and Spanish desk officer, 1970-1972. He has also served as U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1972-1974; first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, 1975-1979; political-economic officer for the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, 1979-1980; and legislative management officer for Europe in the Office of Congressional Relations at the Department of State, 1980-1983. Since 1983, he has been Deputy Chief of Protocol at the Department of State.

Mr. Towell graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1957) and Case Western Reserve University (M.A., 1962). He was born January 31, 1934, in Cleveland, OH. He served in the United States Army Reserve, 1959. Mr. Towell is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC.