United States Ambassador to Peru Nomination of Edwin Gharst Corr.

The President today announced that he will nominate Edwin Gharst Corr, of Norman, Okla., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. He would replace Harry W. Schlaudeman, who is being nominated to be Ambassador to Argentina.

Corr has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters since 1979 and a Foreign Service officer since 1961.

He was born August 6, 1934, in Edmond, Okla. He received a B.A. (1957) and M.A. (1961) from the University of Oklahoma. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1957 to 1960.

Corr joined the Foreign Service in 1961 and was posted in Mexico City and Cali. He took Latin American area studies at the University of Texas in 1968-69, and was an international relations officer in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1972, he was a program officer at the Inter-American Social Development Institute.

From 1972 to 1975, Corr was a political officer in Bangkok. He was posted in Quito from 1975 to 1978, as counselor for political affairs, then Deputy Chief of Mission. From 1978 to 1979, he was an international relations officer in the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters.