The President today announced that he will nominate Thomas D. Boyart, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Colombia. He would replace Diego C. Asencio, who has been appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
Boyatt has been Ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta since 1978 and a Foreign Service officer since 1960.
He was born March 4, 1933, in Cincinnati. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1955 and an M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1956. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1959.
Boyatt joined the Foreign Service in 1960 and was posted in Antofagasta, Luxembourg, and Nicosia, and detailed to the Treasury Department. From 1970 to 1971, he was Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.
From 1972 to 1974, Boyatt was country director for Cyprus at the State Department. He took the senior seminar in foreign policy in 1974-75. From 1975 to 1978, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Colombia Nomination of Thomas D. Boyatt. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250939