[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 8, 1992]
[Page 734]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Alexander Fletcher Watson To Be United States Ambassador 
to Brazil

May 8, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Alexander 
Fletcher Watson, of Massachusetts, a career member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, class of Career Minister, to be Ambassador to the Federative 
Republic of Brazil. He would succeed Richard Huntington Melton.
    Since 1989 Mr. Watson has served as Deputy Representative to the 
United Nations. Prior to this, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the 
Republic of Peru, 1986-89; and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. 
Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, 1984-86. From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Watson 
served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, 
Colombia.
    Mr. Watson graduated from Harvard College (A.B., 1961) and 
University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1969). He was born August 8, 1939, in 
Boston, MA. Mr. Watson is married, has two children, and resides in New 
York, NY.