    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [May 9, 1991]
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    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

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    Nomination of Robert H. Pelletreau, Jr., To Be United States Ambassador
    to Egypt
    May 9, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert H.
    Pelletreau, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary to the Arab Republic of Egypt. He would succeed Frank G.
    Wisner.
        Since 1987 Ambassador Pelletreau has served as Ambassador to the
    Republic of Tunisia. Prior to this he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of
    Defense, 1985-1987. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near
    Eastern and South Asian Affairs at the Department of State, 1983-1985;
    Country Director for Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Department of
    State, 1981-1982; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East
    and South Asia at the Pentagon, 1980-1981. In addition, he was
    Ambassador to the State of Bahrain, 1979-1980, and Deputy Chief of
    Mission in Damascus, Syria, 1975-1978. Ambassador Pelletreau was a
    political officer in Algiers, Algeria, 1973-1975, and served in several
    capacities in Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, and Morocco. Ambassador
    Pelletreau entered the Foreign Service in 1962.
        Ambassador Pelletreau graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1957)
    and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1961). He was born July 9, 1935, in
    Patchogue, NY. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve, 1957-1958. He is
    married and has three children.