The President today announced that he will nominate Robert V. Keeley, of Winter Park, Fla., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Zimbabwe.
Keeley is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, a post he has held since 1978.
He was born September 4, 1929, in Beirut, Lebanon. He received an A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1951, and he served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1953 to 1955.
Keeley joined the State Department in 1956 and has served in a variety of positions in the United States and overseas. His foreign assignments have included posts in Amman, Bamako, the Congo, Athens, Kampala, and Phnom Penh.
From 1974 to 1976, he served at the State Department as Deputy Director of the Interagency Task Force for Indochina Refugees. From 1976 to 1978, he was U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius.
Keeley-is a member of the American Foreign Service Association. He received a Superior Honor Award in 1975 and a Presidential Citation in 1976.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Nomination of Robert V. Keeley. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/249534