Richard Bordeaux Parker
| Richard Bordeaux Parker | |
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| United States Ambassador to Algeria | |
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In office January 17, 1975 – February 12, 1977 |
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| President |
Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | John D. Jernegan |
| Succeeded by | Ulric St. Clair Haynes, Jr. |
| United States Ambassador to Lebanon | |
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In office 1977–1978 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Francis E. Meloy, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | John Gunther Dean |
| United States Ambassador to Morocco | |
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In office 1978–1979 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Robert Anderson |
| Succeeded by | Angier Biddle Duke |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 3, 1923 Fort Stotsenburg, Philippines |
| Died | January 7, 2011 (aged 87) Washington, D.C. |
| Profession | Diplomat, Career Ambassador |
Richard Bordeaux Parker (July 3, 1923, in the Fort Stotsenburg, Philippines - January 7, 2011, in Washington, D.C.) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and an expert on the Middle East. Parker served as Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco.
He was the brother of David Stuart Parker.
Parker was the son of Col. Roscoe Parker, a U.S. Army officer (Cavalry), and grew up in U.S. Army posts across the southwest with a stint in Vermont and another in Kansas. He attended Kansas State University, graduating in 1943. After college, Parker served as an infantry officer with the 106th Infantry Division (first platoon of the Anti-Tank Company of the 422nd Infantry Regiment) during World War II, where he was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge and briefly imprisoned. After the war, he returned to Kansas State, where he earned a master's degree, before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1949. Captured at the same time as Parker, was Donald Prell, who commanded the second platoon of the Anti-Tank Company.
Parker served as deputy chief of mission in Rabat, Morocco from 1970 to 1974. He was ambassador to Algeria from 1975 to 1977, to Lebanon in 1977, and finally to Morocco from 1978 to 1979. He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1981 and became the editor of The Middle East Journal. In addition to his diplomatic career, Parker taught at the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, and Lawrence University. He also served as the first president of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training from 1986 to 1989.
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