[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
[April 26, 1991]
[Pages 437-438]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of John Thomas McCarthy To Be United States Ambassador to 
Tunisia
April 26, 1991

    The President today announced his intention to nominate John Thomas 
McCarthy, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Tunisia. He would succeed Robert H. 
Pelletreau.
    Ambassador McCarthy currently serves as a diplomat-
in residence at Howard Universi-

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ty and the University of the District of Columbia. From 1988 to 1990 
Ambassador McCarthy served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of 
Lebanon, Beirut, and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in 
Islamabad, Pakistan, 1985-1988. Prior to this Ambassador McCarthy served 
at the Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau 
of Public Affairs, 1983-1985, and Director of the Office of Investment 
for the Economic Bureau, 1980-1983. He served at the U.S. Mission to the 
European Community in Brussels, Belgium, as economic counselor, 1978-
1980, and as a trade officer, 1976-1978. Ambassador McCarthy served at 
the European Community desk in the European Bureau of the Department of 
State, 1973-1976; trained in Atlantic affairs at Harvard University, 
1972-1973; as a political officer for the Bureau of International 
Organizations at the Department of State, 1971-1972; and as vice consul 
at the American consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 1969-1971. He also 
trained at the Foreign Service Institute in the Thai language, 1968; 
served at the operations center at the Department of State, 1967-1968; 
as second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, 1965-1967; 
and as third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Bangui, Central African 
Republic, 1962-1964. He entered the Foreign Service in 1962.
    Ambassador McCarthy graduated from Manhattan College (B.A., 1961) 
and Harvard University (M.P.A., 1973). He was born December 27, 1939, in 
New York, NY. Ambassador McCarthy is married, has three children, and 
resides in Washington, DC.