    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [May 15, 1991]
    [Pages 517-518]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Johnnie Carson To Be United States Ambassador to Uganda
    May 15, 1991

        The President announced his intention to nominate Johnnie Carson, of
    Illinois, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
    the United States of America to the

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    Republic of Uganda. He would succeed John Andrew Burroughs, Jr.
        Currently Mr. Carson serves as a member of the senior seminar at the
    Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to this, Mr. Carson
    served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Gaborone,
    Botswana, 1986-1990; deputy political counselor at the American Embassy
    in Lisbon, Portugal, 1982; and as a staff director for the subcommittee
    on Africa at the United States House of Representatives in Washington,
    DC, 1979-1982; and staff secretariat in the Office of the Secretary at
    the Department of State, 1978-1979. He also served as deputy chief of
    mission at the American Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique, 1975-1978;
    studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the London
    School of Economics, 1974-1975. He served as a political officer at the
    United States mission to the United Nations, 1973; as a political
    analyst at the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the Department of
    State, 1971-1974; and as a consular and political officer at the
    American Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, 1969-1971. Mr. Carson has also
    served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania and East Africa, 1965-
    1968.
        Mr. Carson graduated from Drake University (B.A., 1965) and the
    University of London (M.A., 1975). He was born April 7, 1943, in
    Chicago, IL. Mr. Carson is married, has three children, and resides in
    Reston, VA.