[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
[June 21, 1991]
[Page 709]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Frank G. Wisner To Be United States Ambassador to the 
Philippines
June 21, 1991

    The President today announced his intention to nominate Frank G. 
Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and 
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the 
Philippines. He would succeed Nicholas Platt.
    Since 1986 Ambassador Wisner has served as U.S. Ambassador to the 
Arab Republic of Egypt. Prior to this, Ambassador Wisner served as 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1982-1986; and 
as Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, 1979-1982; he was Deputy 
Executive Secretary of the Department of State, 1977-1979; Director of 
the Office of Southern African Affairs, 1976; and Special Assistant to 
the Under Secretary of State, 1975-1976. He also served as Director of 
the Office of Plans and Management in the Bureau of Public Affairs, 
1974-1975; as the First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, 
Bangladesh, 1973-1974; as the First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in 
Tunis, Tunisia, 1971-1973; and as the officer in charge of Tunisian 
affairs at the Department of State, 1969-1971; and at the Agency for 
International Development in Vietnam, 1964-1969. Ambassador Wisner 
entered the Foreign Service in 1961.
    Ambassador Wisner graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1961). 
He was born July 2, 1938, in New York, NY. Ambassador Wisner is married 
and has four children.