The President today announced that he will nominate Allen Clayton Davis, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea. He would replace Oliver S. Crosby, who is resigning. Davis has been minister-counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kinshasa since 1977 and has been a Foreign Service officer since 1956.
He was born August 23, 1927, in Glencliff, Tenn. He received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University in 1956. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1953.
Davis joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and was posted in Monrovia, at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and at the State Department. From 1966 to 1968, he was a political officer in Moscow, and from 1968 to 1970, he was counselor for political affairs and Deputy Chief of Mission in Ouagadougou.
From 1970 to 1973, Davis was counselor for political affairs in Algiers. He attended the Army War College in 1973-74 and was counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission in Dakar from 1974 to 1977.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Guinea Nomination of Allen Clayton Davis. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251128