The President today announced that he will nominate Stephen Low, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He would replace Donald B. Easum, who is resigning.
Low is now Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia.
He was born December 2, 1927, in Cincinnati. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1950 and an M.A. (1951) and Ph.D. (1956) from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served in the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1947.
Low joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and was posted in Kampala and Dakar. From 1964 to 1963, he was officer in charge of Guinea-Mall affairs at the State Department, and from 1965 to 1967, he was Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
In 1967-68 he attended the National War College, and from 1968 to 1971, he was counselor for political affairs in Brasilia. He was director of Brazil affairs at the State Department from 1971 to 1974. From 1974 to 1976, he was detailed to the National Security Council, and since 1976 he has been Ambassador to Zambia.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Nigeria Nomination of Stephen Low. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250366