[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.