The President today announced that he will nominate Charles E. Marthinsen, of McLean, Va., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the State of Qatar. He would replace Andrew Killgore, resigned.
Marthinsen is currently Director of Egyptian Affairs at the State Department and has been a Foreign Service officer since 1955.
He was born May 18, 1931, in Jersey City, N.J. He received a B.A. from Gannon College in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955.
After joining the Foreign Service, Marthinsen was posted in Dacca, Beirut, Jidda, and Damascus. He was political and economic officer in Cairo from 1967 to 1969 and served as an international relations officer at the State Department from 1969 to 1970.
Marthinsen was political officer in Tripoli from 1970 to 1973 and attended the National War College in 1973-74. From 1974 to 1978, he was a personnel officer at the State Department. He has been Director of Egyptian Affairs since 1978.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Qatar Nomination of Charles E. Marthinsen. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249546