The President today announced that he will nominate Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr., of Hartford, Conn., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the State of Bahrain. He would replace Wat T. Cluverius IV, resigned.
Pelletreau was born July 9, 1935, in Patchogue, N.Y. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1957 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1961.
Pelletreau joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and was posted in Tangier, Nouakchott, Beirut, Amman, and at the State Department as an international relations officer. From 1973 to 1975, he was political officer in Algiers, and from 1975 to 1978, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Damascus.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Bahrain Nomination of Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249557