Nomination of Walter Edward Stadtler To Be United States Ambassador to Benin

The President today announced his intention to nominate Walter Edward Stadtler, of New York, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the People's Republic of Benin. He succeeds George E. Moose

Mr. Stadtler joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and was first assigned as vice consul in Southampton, England. He left Southampton in 1963 to serve in London as Third Secretary until 1964. From 1964 to 1966, he served as Third Secretary, then Second Secretary, and economic officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany. Mr. Stadtler returned to Washington in 1967 as a personnel officer in career management. From 1969 to 1972, he was Second Secretary and consul at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. Following South Africa, he became economic officer and commercial Attaché in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1972-1975, when he was named First Secretary. Mr. Stadtler was the commercial officer in Stockholm, 1975-1978. In 1978 he served as European adviser at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for the 33d Session of the General Assembly in New York City. Following that he attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. From 1980 to 1982, he was counselor for commercial affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, and from there in 1982 to 1985, he became Charge d'Affaires and deputy chief of mission in Pretoria. Since 1985 he has been a member of the senior seminar.

He attended the University of Paris, 1955-1956, and graduated from Fordham University (A.B., 1957). Mr. Stadtler also studied at Columbia University, 1957-1958. His foreign languages are German, Afrikaans, French, Vietnamese, Italian, and Swedish. Mr. Stadtler is married and has three children. He was born April 4, 1936, in New York.