Tom Korologos
| Tom C. Korologos | |
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| United States Ambassador to Belgium | |
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In office July 14, 2004 – 2007 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Stephen Brauer |
| Succeeded by | Sam Fox |
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Tom Chris Korologos April 6, 1933 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Profession | Lobbyist |
Tom Chris Korologos (born April 6, 1933) is a former United States Ambassador to Belgium.
A second generation Greek American, Tom was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has family origins from Tyros, Arcadia, in Greece. His parents Chris T. Korologos and Irene M. Kolendrianos, are both immigrants from Arcadia, in the Peloponnese region. His father was a bartender in Utah.
Korologos started out as a journalist with The Salt Lake Tribune. Later he worked for the New York Herald Tribune, theLong Island Press, and the Associated Press. He was a U.S. Air Force officer from 1956 to 1957. He earned his B.A. degree at the University of Utah in 1956, and a M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1958 where he received the Grantland Rice Fellowship and a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.
From 1962 to 1971 he worked for U.S. Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah. He served in the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidential administrations from 1971 to 1975, and has worked closely with Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He was co-founder of Timmons & Company, a Washington, DC consulting firm. He has been involved in more than 300 U.S. Senate confirmations including assisting Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President Gerald Ford, Supreme Court Justices: William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and nominee Robert Bork, as well as several cabinet secretaries, including: Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and Donald Rumsfeld.
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