The President today announced that he will nominate Harry W. Shlaudeman, of San Marino, Calif., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. In 1976 and 1977 Shlaudeman was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.
He was born May 17, 1926, in Los Angeles, Calif. He received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1952. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946.
Shlaudeman was consular officer in Barranquilla from 1954 to 1956 and political .officer in Bogota from 1956 to 1958. He took Bulgarian language and area training at the Foreign Service Institute in 1958-59, and from 1959 to 1962 he served as consular officer in Sofia.
In 1962 and 1963 Shlaudeman was political officer in Santo Domingo. From 1963 to 1965, he was chief of Dominican affairs at the State Department, and in 1965 and 1966 he was Assistant Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs at the Department.
In 1966-67 Shlaudeman took the senior seminar in foreign policy. From 1967 to 1969, he was Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and from 1969 to 1973 he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Santiago.
Shlaudeman served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1973 to 1975 and as Ambassador to Venezuela in 1975 and 1976. In 1976 he became Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Peru - Nomination of Harry W. Shlaudeman Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244278