Jeffrey Davidow
| Jeffrey Davidow | |
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| United States Ambassador to Mexico | |
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In office August 5, 1998 – September 14, 2002 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | James Robert Jones |
| Succeeded by | Tony Garza |
| United States Ambassador to Zambia | |
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In office July 11, 1988 – March 31, 1990 |
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| President |
Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Paul Julian Hare |
| Succeeded by | Gordon L. Streeb |
| United States Ambassador to Venezuela | |
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In office October 1, 1993 – May 16, 1996 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Michael Martin Skol |
| Succeeded by | John F. Keane |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 26, 1944 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Political party | Democratic |
Jeffrey S. Davidow (born January 26, 1944) is a career foreign service officer from the U.S. state of Virginia. Davidow has served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, as well as having been the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia,Venezuela, and Mexico.
Upon completion of 34 years of service, he retired as the highest ranking U.S. diplomat. Davidow was one of the few people to hold the rank of Career Ambassador.
Davidow was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts in 1965 and an MA from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He also did postgraduate work in India 1968 on a Fulbright travel grant.
Davidow joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1969 and began his career as a junior officer at the American Embassy in Guatemala City, Guatemala, from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974, he was a U.S. political observer in Santiago, Chile (involved in the case of Charles Horman), and held the same position in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1974 to 1976. He returned to Washington, D.C. in 1976 to take a position as a desk officer in the Office of Southern African Affairs, and he went on to be a Congressional fellow from 1978 to 1979.
He later became the head of the liaison office at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 1979 to 1982. He returned shortly thereafter to pursue a fellowship at Harvard University, as well as to take-over as Director of the Office of Southern African Affairs in 1985.
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