The President today announced that he will nominate Fernando E. Rondon, of Alexandria, Va., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar. He would be the first U.S. Ambassador to that country since the departure of Joseph A. Mendenhall in 1975.
Rondon has been Deputy Chief of Mission in Tegucigalpa since 1978 and a Foreign Service officer since 1961.
He was born May 6, 1936, in Los Angeles, Calif. He received a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960.
After joining the Foreign Service in 1961, Rondon was posted in Tehran, Tangier, Constantine, and Antananarivo and studied French and Arabic. From 1970 to 1973, he was detailed to the National Security Council.
From 1973 to 1975, Rondon was political officer in Lima. He attended the National War College in 1975-76. From 1976 to 1978, he was alternate director of the Office of East Coast Affairs at the State Department.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Madagascar Nomination of Fernando E. Rondon. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251973