The President today announced that he will nominate Francis J. Meehan, of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Poland. He would replace William E. Schaufele, Jr., who is retiring from the Foreign Service.
Meehan has been Ambassador to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic since 1979 and a Foreign Service officer since 1951.
He was born February 14, 1924, in East Orange, N.J. He received an M.A. from the University of Glasgow in 1945 and an M.P.A. from Harvard University in 1957. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1947.
Meehan joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and served in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Paris, Moscow, and at the State Department. From 1967 to 1968, he was Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State, and from 1968 to 1972, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Budapest.
From 1972 to 1975, Meehan was counselor for political affairs in Bonn. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Vienna from 1975 to 1977, and in Bonn from 1977 to 1979.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Poland Nomination of Francis J. Meehan. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250880