The President today announced that he will nominate Francois M. Dickman, of Laramie, Wyo., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the State of Kuwait. He would replace Frank E. Maestrone, who is being transferred.
Dickman has been Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates since 1976.
He was born December 23, 1924, in Iowa City, Iowa. He received a B.A. from the University of Wyoming in 1947 and an M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1948. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and 1950 to 1951.
Dickman joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was posted in Barranquilla, Beirut, and Khartoum. From 1960 to 1961, he was at the State Department as an international relations officer, then international economist. From 1961 to 1965, he was desk officer for the United Arab Republic (Egypt) and the Syrian Arab Republic.
From 1965 to 1968, Dickman was economic officer in Tunis. In 1968-69 he attended the Army War College. From 1969 to 1972, he was counselor for economic affairs in Jidda, and from 1972 to 1976, he was Director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the State Department.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Kuwait Nomination of Francois M. Dickman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250304