Aurelia E. Brazeal
| Aurelia E. Brazeal | |
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| United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia | |
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In office August 6, 1990 – July 6, 1993 |
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| President | George H.W. Bush |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | March Fong Eu |
| United States Ambassador to Kenya | |
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In office August 9, 1993 – September 11, 1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Smith Hempstone, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Prudence Bushnell |
| United States Ambassador to Ethiopia | |
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In office November 20, 2002 – September 2, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Tibor P. Nagy |
| Succeeded by | Donald Yamamoto |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 November 1943 Chicago |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Education |
Spelman College Columbia University Harvard University |
Aurelia Erskine Brazeal (born 1943) is a retired American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, United States Ambassador to Kenya and United States Ambassador to Ethiopia.
Brazeal was born November 24, 1943 in Chicago, and grew up in Atlanta, one of two daughters of Brailsford Reese Brazeal and Ernestine Vivian Erskine Brazeal. Her father was an educator and economist, and B.R. Brazeal Hall at Morehouse College is named in his honor. Brazeal completed her secondary education at Northfield School for Girls, now Northfield Mount Hermon School. She earned a B.A. degree at Spelman College 1965. In 1967 she also earned a master's degree in International Affairs at Columbia University. Later, she completed post-graduate study at Harvard University.
Brazeal joined the U.S. Foreign Service 1968. Her initial assignment was as an economic officer in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State focused on creating ways to promote a market economy and democracy in South America and Southeast Asia.
She was then assigned as a Consular and Economic Officer Argentina, where she served from 1969 to 1971. Her next assignments were in the State Department’s Economic Bureau and the Department of State Operations Center.
Her next two assignments took her to international locations. From 1974 to 1981, she served in the U.S. Embassies in Uruguay and Paraguay and Japan.
In 1982 she returned to Washington, D.C., assigned to the State Department offices there, including an assignment as Deputy Director for Economics, which she held from 1984 to 1986. She then completed a two-year assignment as a Senior Seminar member at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, VA. She then returned to Japan, where she served from 1987 to 1990 at the Tokyo Embassy.
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