Murat W. Williams
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John F. Kennedy meeting with Ambassador Williams
Murat Willis Williams (1919, Richmond, Virginia[1]-March 31, 1994 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American Career Foreign Service officer who was Ambassador to El Salvador from 1961 to 1964.[2]
A graduate of the University of Virginia and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford for three years,[1] Williams served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II before joining the Foreign Service. Williams died of a stroke in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 79.[2]
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- ^ a b "AMBASSADOR MURAT WILLIAMS" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Murat W. Williams; Ambassador, 79". The New York Times. April 3, 1994. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
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- University of Virginia alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador
- United States Foreign Service personnel
- 1919 births
- 1994 deaths
- People from Richmond, Virginia
- 20th-century American diplomats
- American Rhodes Scholars
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- American diplomat stubs