United States Ambassador to Nicaragua Nomination of Lawrence A. Pezzullo.

The President today announced that he will nominate Lawrence A. Pezzullo, of Bethesda, Md., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Nicaragua. He would replace Maurice Solaun, who is being assigned to the State Department.

Pezzullo is currently Ambassador to Uruguay.

He was born May 3, 1926, in New York City. He received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946.

Pezzullo was a public schoolteacher in Levittown, Long Island, from 1951 to 1957. He joined the Foreign Service in 1957, and from 1958 to 1960 served as consular officer in Ciudad Juarez. He was a foreign affairs officer at the State Department from 1960 to 1962.

From 1962 to 1965, Pezzullo was general services officer in Saigon. He was a political officer in La Paz from 1965 to 1967, in Bogota from 1967 to 1969, and in Guatemala from 1969 to 1971. He attended the National War College in 1971-72.

From 1972 to 1974, Pezzullo was at the Office of Central American Affairs at the State Department, as international relations officer, then Deputy Director. In 1974 and 1975, he was special assistant to the Ambassador at Large.

From 1975 to 1977, Pezzullo was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations. Since 1977 he has been Ambassador to Uruguay.