The President today announced that he will nominate Larry Gordon Piper, of Burnet, Tex., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Gambia. He would replace Herman J. Cohen, resigned. Piper has been Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat at the State Department since 1977.
He was born June 26, 1928, in Dallas, Tex. He received a B.B.A. from Southwest Texas State College in 1949.
From 1949 to 1954, Piper was assistant manager of a food processing and distribution company, and from 1954 to 1963, he was senior accountant, then comptroller-manager, of a petroleum production and exploration company. From 1961 to 1963, he was U.S. consular agent in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. From 1963 to 1964, he was a cost analyst with an aerospace company.
Piper served as budget and fiscal officer at the U.S. Embassies in Salisbury (1964-66), Mogadishu (1966-67), and La Paz (1967-70). He was a budget officer (1970-72) and budget and management officer (1972-74) at the State Department.
From 1974 to 1977, Piper was administrative officer in Lagos. In 1977 he also served as Counselor for Administration at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to The Gambia Nomination of Larry Gordon Piper. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251035