Nomination of William Graham Walker To Be United States Ambassador to El Salvador

The President today announced his intention to nominate William Graham Walker, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador. He would succeed Edwin G. Corr.

Mr. Walker joined the Foreign Service in 1961 and served as a consular officer from 1962 to 1964 in Lima and Arequipa, Peru, and from 1964 to 1966 in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. In 1967 he returned to Washington to serve as the desk officer for Argentina at the Department of State. In 1968-1969, Mr. Walker received university training in Latin American studies at UCLA, following which he was posted as a political officer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1962-1972. From 1972 to 1974, Mr. Walker served as an intergovernmental affairs officer at the Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, CA. He was then assigned as chief, political section, at the American Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador, from 1974 to 1977. In 1977-1978, Mr. Walker returned to Washington and was assigned as a State Department fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. From 1978 to 1980, Mr. Walker served as a Foreign Service inspector in Washington, following which he served as the deputy chief of mission in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from 1980 to 1982, and deputy chief of mission in La Paz, Bolivia, from 1982 to 1985. Since 1985 Mr. Walker has been a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs in Washington.

Mr. Walker graduated from the University of Southern California (B.A., 1960). He was born June 1, 1935, in Kearny, NJ, and served in the United States Army, 1957-1958. He is married, has four children, and resides in Rockville, MD.