[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[May 13, 1992]
[Pages 764-765]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



Nomination of Joseph Charles Wilson IV To Be United States Ambassador to 
Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe

May 13, 1992
    The President today announced his intention to nominate Joseph 
Charles Wilson IV, of California, a career member of the Senior Foreign 
Service, class of Counselor, to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic 
and to serve concurrently without compensation as Ambassador to the 
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe. He would succeed Keith 
Leveret Wauchope.
    Currently Mr. Wilson serves as a member of the senior seminar at the 
Foreign Service Institute. From 1988 to 1991, he served as Deputy Chief 
of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and as Deputy Chief of

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Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville, Congo, 1986-88.
    Mr. Wilson graduated from the University of California at Santa 
Barbara (B.A., 1971). He was born November 6, 1949, in Bridgeport, CT. 
Mr. Wilson is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC.