United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic Nomination of Arthur H. Woodruff.
The President today announced that he will nominate Arthur H. Woodruff, of St. Petersburg, Fla., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Central African Republic. He would replace Goodwin Cooke, who is being assigned to the State Department.
Woodruff has been Deputy Director of the Office of Foreign Service Career Development and Assignments at the State Department since 1978 and a Foreign Service officer since 1956.
He was born September 26, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received a B.A. (1950) and M.P.A. (1960) from Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952.
Woodruff joined the Foreign Service in 1955 and served in Casablanca, Lubumbashi, London, and at the State Department. From 1968 to 1973, he was political-military officer at USNATO in Brussels. He was detailed to the Canadian Defense College in 1973-74.
From 1974 to 1977, Woodruff was with the Office of Policy Planning, Public and Congressional Affairs, as an international relations officer, then Deputy Director. From 1977 to 1978, he was a member of the Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic Nomination of Arthur H. Woodruff. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250845