The President today announced that he will nominate Horace G. Dawson, Jr., of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Of the United States to the Republic of Botswana. He would replace Donald R. Norland, who has been transferred to another post.
Dawson has been counselor for political affairs in Manila since 1977.
He was born January 30, 1926, in Augusta, Ga. He received an A.B. from Lincoln University in 1949, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1950, and a Ph.D. from the State University of Iowa in 1960. He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946.
Dawson was an instructor of English at Southern University from 1950 to 1953, and associate professor and director of public relations at North Carolina Central University from 1953 to 1962.
He joined the International Communication Agency (then USIA) in 1962, and was posted in Kampala, Lagos, and Monrovia. In 1970-71 he took the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy at the Foreign Service Institute, and from 1971 to 1973, he was cultural affairs adviser in Washington.
From 1973 to 1977, Dawson was Deputy Assistant Director for Africa, then Assistant Director for Africa, at USIA in Washington.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Botswana Nomination of Horace G. Dawson, It. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/247800