The President today announced that he will nominate William C. Harrop, of Princeton, N.J., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Kenya and to the Republic of Seychelles. He would replace Wilbert Le Melle, resigned. Harrop has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs since 1977.
He was born February 19, 1929, in Baltimore, Md. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1950. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951 to 1952.
Harrop joined the Foreign Service in 1954 and was posted in Palermo, Rome, Brussels, Lubumbashi, and at the State Department. In 1968-69 he was detailed to study at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
From 1969 to 1973, Harrop was Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for Africa at the State Department. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Canberra from 1973 to 1975 and Ambassador to Guinea from 1975 to 1977.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Kenya and Seychelles Nomination of William C. Harrop. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250028